be prepared to do something

Examples of prepare

prepare
The attentiveness of the nurse and the nourishment she prepares is for the sake of a sick person, a patient.
Nonetheless, it appears that moral orthodoxy, as defined by what the public is prepared to accept, is on the side of the animal experimentalists.
I have people that help with preparing my meals, but nobody feeds me.
Instead, let us redouble our efforts and be prepared to sail this new, complex, perverse, destructive, fascinating, cherished river whose name is still pediatric cardiology!
The stems were prepared as described above, and infested with prey as for the mixed prey density treatment (iv) previously described.
The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land.
The problem was no one was prepared to see what his vitals showed.
Fewer hospital staff seem prepared to accept long-stay patients as one of their functions.
They seem to have been prepared to handle anything (zakka, miscellaneous goods).
Nothing in my small life had prepared me for this.
Unless the architectural profession and schools of architecture are prepared to look outwards, our standing in research could slip ever lower.
The landlord once suggested that a relative of his would be prepared to swap property with the tenants.
Farmers were prepared to accept some late blight in tubers if other characteristics were favourable.
Beds were prepared by tractor and were 25 cm in height.
Their plans fell through because they hadn't prepared well enough.
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