Example sentences of "ready for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs in the workshop , there is an air of quiet panic mingled with excitement because nothing is quite ready for the upcoming show , but it 's near enough to know it 's all going to be just divine . |
| 2 | We were all soaking wet and more than ready for the hot baths and good meal we knew would be waiting for us back at Malham Tarn . |
| 3 | Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 4 | Now we have to get ready for the New Year . |
| 5 | The mast hand then vigorously throws the rig across the body ready for the new back hand to sheet in . |
| 6 | If she dies or leaves , they are instantly ware of it , and soon develop eggs and start constructing cells ready for the new queen . |
| 7 | ‘ Because of all the waiting for the team to happen , we lost a lot of time getting ready for the new season . |
| 8 | Work went on over the Summer Holiday of 1980 to ensure that the Convent buildings would be ready for the new term , when there would be girls in both the Sixth Form and the First Form . |
| 9 | Above : The Euro Disney President and Vice-President get ready for the grand opening |
| 10 | Then I remembered they would be getting ready for the Roman banquet later on in the evening . |
| 11 | And when we are satisfied and at peace , then we are ready for the endless joys of the mental life . |
| 12 | Thus the Lincoln was ready for the current fashion for larger carcasses . |
| 13 | Flora was only a nuisance , stopping after seconds of weeding to write her name in pebbles on the lawn ( all ready for the tender teeth of the mower blades ) or float daisy heads in a puddle , and Peter was never so galvanized by holy necessity calling from the far side of the parish as when the garden was mentioned . |
| 14 | Just as he practised the violin every morning between nine thirty and ten thirty , so I always had the sense he practised his lovemaking on me , getting ready for the real thing , only this with me was not it : I was not it . |
| 15 | When MacArthur banned the strike his action symbolized the feeling that Japan was not yet ready for the complete freedoms contained in the labour reforms . |
| 16 | At the Gleneagles Hotel , work on the new Jack Nicklaus designed Monarch championship golf course is nearing completion , ready for the official tee off in May 1993 . |
| 17 | It was Tuesday morning , when year ten pupils boarded the coach , ready for the long journey which lay ahead of them . |
| 18 | Meetings were often held in museums or educational institutions specially built or refurbished to be ready for the great occasion . |
| 19 | Black House , as the Chelsea headquarters in the King 's Road became known , had uniformed sentries at its doors , for all the world as if the private army was ready for the great coup . |
| 20 | His cheek , shaved , ready for the outside air , presses mine , which is still warm and undifferentiated . |
| 21 | The female keeps her eggs and growing young in her mouth until they are ready for the outside world . |
| 22 | In Moscow , Red Square was made ready for the triumphalist May Day parade . |
| 23 | The advance party has now returned to base camp to spend a few days feeding up on military rations of sausage and beans and chocolate and pear ready for the final push . |
| 24 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 25 | Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar . |
| 26 | They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip . |
| 27 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
| 28 | The identified block is ready for the usual editing options — cutting , copying , moving and pasting . |
| 29 | As part of its drive to improve its efficiency and make itself ready for the private sector should the Government decide to privatise it following the review of the nuclear industry next year , Scottish Nuclear recently appointed Charterhouse , the merchant bank , as its adviser . |
| 30 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |