Sentence examples for by ready from inspiring English sources

"We were standing by, ready to do anything".

A sizable contingent of media folk were also standing by, ready to wring their hands in the event of bloodshed.

Oh, and Wells Fargo and Countrywide were standing by, ready to offer financing to qualified auction buyers.

Armed guards stood by, ready to try to shoot anyone who dared attempt the bank's precious vault.

Overuse of powerful antibiotics (including ciprofloxacin), facilitated by ready, over-the-counter access in many parts of the world, promotes the development and spread of such organisms.

By "ready", it means that they should have functioning market economies, stable democracies and the administrative and judicial capacities needed to enforce EU laws.

At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 15,000 Special Forces troops, dubbed STRICOM, were placed on stand-by, ready to be airlifted at the first sign of trouble.

In general, reactive behavior seems to be due to the self-understanding of the organization since it has to be lightly "proactive" when it is permanently on stand-by, ready for an alarm and ready to act.

Neither is she impressed by ready-to-wear lines that have made fashion generic across the world.

Thus wallpaper paste "is still represented by ready-mixed filler", the ONS said.

There is an on-going search for production methods that can be applied to produce suitable manufactured sand that fulfils the requirements set by ready-mix concrete producers.