Example sentences of "be prepare for " in BNC.

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1 According to Soviet sources , a catalogue of 600 scientific and technical innovations from the space shuttle Buran and the giant rocket booster Energiya have been prepared for exploitation worldwide .
2 Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either .
3 In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings .
4 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 .
5 But at least she has been prepared for her party to stand in elections here .
6 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 .
7 His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals .
8 And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for .
9 He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard .
10 It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic .
11 Within a few months business looked good , so well had the way been prepared for the success of our own Community Station .
12 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 .
13 But all had been prepared for them .
14 Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works .
15 I have been prepared for death for many years . ’
16 He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining .
17 Desist , I think you will find this has been prepared for . ’
18 Only the lower bunk had been prepared for the night : the upper was still in the ceiling .
19 Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing .
20 He may not have been prepared for what followed .
21 Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew .
22 That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook !
23 In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now …
24 The trackbed within the Avon Valley has already been prepared for the relaying , with the ballast cleaned and put into piles ready for reuse .
25 In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January .
26 History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ .
27 An office has been prepared for you in the Kremlin .
28 Although a number of surveys have shown that practice has been slow to change , the ground has at least been prepared for change .
29 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 .
30 We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it .
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