Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] prepared for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the pitch had been prepared for the spinners , but since West Indies had prepared many of their own pitches for their speed merchants they could hardly complain . |
| 2 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 3 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 4 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 5 | A cup of foaming vitriol had been prepared for my anointing by the infant 's grandmother , who was the mother of the Guider and a member of the church although not present on this occasion . |
| 6 | But all had been prepared for them . |
| 7 | Only the lower bunk had been prepared for the night : the upper was still in the ceiling . |
| 8 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 9 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 10 | A social role is rather similar to a role played by an actor : people occupying certain positions or statuses in society are expected to behave in certain predictable ways , as if ‘ scripts ’ had been prepared for them . |
| 11 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 12 | This had been prepared for her by Dolores , or one of the maids . |
| 13 | Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts … |
| 14 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 15 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 16 | Well as I understand it the er these lawyers for the defendants took the view that as all the statements had been prepared for the police complaints authority investigation , public immunity er yes er public interest immunity attached to them . |
| 17 | Sadly , when Mr Mason 's marvellous edifice arrived in May 1857 it was discovered that the basin which had been prepared for it was far too small . |
| 18 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |