Example sentences of "[was/were] ready for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These millions were ready for new forms of fun , or at least new combinations of familiar and proven elements .
2 Jumping into a vehicle they drove furiously to Haleiwa where their P.40s were ready for immediate take-off .
3 Omari gives a translation of an interesting example in reply to a reader who had written that Africans were ready for immediate self-rule :
4 Satisfied that the gun was ready for immediate use , Kirov transferred it discreetly to his jacket pocket before turning and walking towards the waiting figure of Ybreska .
5 Nothing was ready for new life .
6 Commenting on the possibility of German reunification , Worner said that a debate within the alliance on that issue was a matter of time , and that NATO was ready for eventual reunification if it was the expressed will of the German people .
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