Example sentences of "preparing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposing pressure groups were already in existence and preparing for the campaign : in favour , the Divorce Action Group ; and against , such groups as Family Solidarity , Women in the Home , and the Knights of Columbanus . |
| 2 | Preparing for frost |
| 3 | Preparing for breast feeding . |
| 4 | PREPARING FOR PREGNANCY |
| 5 | Counsellors are available to talk to and advise individuals and couples about marital or partnership problems , preparing for marriage and parenthood . |
| 6 | To the right of the picture , ignored by Gouraud , is a small group of Beirut notables , preparing for what several Lebanese Muslim historians would later refer to as ‘ the betrayal ’ . |
| 7 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West Midlands fraud squad . |
| 8 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |
| 9 | RAF technician preparing for Red Arrow display |
| 10 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 11 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 12 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 13 | Horses preparing for parade in Cumbria |
| 14 | In July 1936 he gathered in his palace at Bishopthorpe a select team of ten for the purpose of preparing for the coming ecumenical conference . |
| 15 | Since morning he had been in and out of the kitchen where Maggie and Mona were cleaning and tidying and preparing for the big meal . |
| 16 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 17 | At the same time , elements of the 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ( 1 RFF ) , one of two non-parachute-trained battalions in the brigade , are also preparing for an airborne operation . |
| 18 | Although they are the letters of instruction from an older devil to a younger , Screwtape 's sense of what the Enemy ( i.e. God ) is preparing for his servants can not fail to break through . |
| 19 | there will be a celebration Mass for the children preparing for First Communion . |
| 20 | THE Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher , is preparing for a head-on clash with President Bush at Camp David tomorrow over American proposals for radical cuts in the US defence budget . |
| 21 | ONE of Europe 's symbolic Communist strongholds is preparing for its final battle after the decision yesterday of the state-owned Renault car company to close its 60-year-old Paris factory at Boulogne Billancourt in 1992 . |
| 22 | With such thoughts uppermost in their minds , ecologists are preparing for the arrival of genetically-engineered crops . |
| 23 | Following some intense telephone diplomacy between Bonn and Paris , Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Franois Mitterrand agreed that the Strasbourg EC summit , which opens here today , should after all agree a date for revising the Treaty of Rome and preparing for supra-national monetary union . |
| 24 | Basingstoke 's Camrose ground is preparing for a record 4,000-plus crowd for the visit of Torquay , whose chances of survival have been reduced by the flu bug in their camp . |
| 25 | ‘ The understanding of our history we achieved in preparing for the 70th anniversary of October is not something frozen and given once and for all . |
| 26 | Industry preparing for the Government legislation is luring inspectors away faster than they can be recruited to enforce it . |
| 27 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 28 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 29 | Coe is now in Melbourne , preparing for his final track race , the 1500 metres in the Commonwealth Games . |
| 30 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |