Example sentences of "prepare for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must prepare for payment all accounts due from the local authority and must in his turn , collect for the authority all sums due from time to time to the local authority particularly in regard to the collection of rates . |
| 2 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 3 | The object of the research is to edit and prepare for publication two of Jeremy Bentham 's major works on constitutional government as a sub-project within the framework of the new edition of the Collected Works . |
| 4 | The Lord wonderfully provided for me to visit the country in March 1990 and later that year He revealed that I should prepare for service among Albanians . |
| 5 | The 250 delegates were reassured by Mandela that despite the year-old agreement to suspend the armed struggle [ see p. 37642 ] , MK would not dwindle away , and MK members should prepare for integration into the armed forces of a democratic South Africa . |
| 6 | He is fifty-three ageing , losing his sight , and should prepare for death . |
| 7 | Linda Johnson felt as though she 'd been doing nothing but prepare for Christmas for months and was exhausted before it all began . |
| 8 | While a man should never consciously prepare for violence , the latter is always preferable to cowardice or emasculation . |
| 9 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
| 10 | The Divisional Court felt that the copy documents which the solicitor had prepared for counsel were necessarily franked by professional privilege . |
| 11 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 12 | Clearly the pope was prepared for compromise . |
| 13 | Enjoy a tour of Jordan Grand Prix 's Headquarters where the team 's cars are built and prepared for competition . |
| 14 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 15 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 16 | Certainly not a habitual drinker , he was nevertheless sitting that night in the darkness with a bottle of whisky , prepared for excess . |
| 17 | Andrew and John were recruited with the objective of being prepared for Shell work on the Brent contract , and have systematically followed a route of planned training , to work for Wood Group Engineering Contractors on a Shell site and installation . |
| 18 | Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’ |
| 19 | Although a number of surveys have shown that practice has been slow to change , the ground has at least been prepared for change . |
| 20 | Daily summary sheets are prepared for management and other heads of department . |
| 21 | I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake . |
| 22 | A tall humanoid creature with a large , fierce-looking helmet stepped out and headed towards Bash , who raised his axe and prepared for battle . |
| 23 | When they reached the sunken garden , ignoring the swing-seat beneath the vines , Luce chose a sunny bench and , battening down her agitation , prepared for battle . |
| 24 | Galliéni , therefore , ordered huge amounts of munitions to be stockpiled ; all roads , rail tracks , even sewers leading into the city were barricaded , and bridges prepared for demolition . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 26 | I found the parking area in front of the gloomy , if majestic , main building , and keeping my little angel on a strangle-tight lead , prepared for disapproval . |
| 27 | However , to suggest to a parent that an assessment should start at the same point in time as the children are prepared for removal to a long-term placement , does not enable an open and honest working relationship . |
| 28 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 29 | Instead , Willis found that his lads were very well prepared for work in factories where they could use the same ‘ survival ’ techniques as they had learned at school . |
| 30 | " This Meeting consider themselves authorised to regulate the practice to be hereafter adopted in Smithies — and direct now that he who comes to the smithy first prepared for work shall have preference in finishing all his work of every kind before any other can pretend to interfere . " |