Example sentences of "prepared for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Les Conn : ‘ Well , of course , the people were n't prepared for that kind of entertainment and they all put their hands over their ears , and Bloom started screaming , ‘ Get them off , they 're ruining my wedding party ’ .
2 She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that .
3 The Treasury Lords regarded the rejection of Hall 's Bill ‘ as a virtual abandonment of the whole scheme by the House of Commons ’ , and as the site was now limited to that authorized under the 1855 Act , they did not see why the plan prepared for that site should not be used .
4 One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow .
5 You need to be prepared for that .
6 They believe that a Christian should be prepared for that return .
7 Somehow one is n't prepared for that kind of situation …
8 ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited .
9 ‘ I have always been prepared for that .
10 So be prepared for that , be prepared that the person you 're going to talk to is not gon na give you that usual to and fro feedback and do n't be thrown by that .
11 Sorry I 've had to juggle that we 've got some new documentation just being prepared for that but that 's being er .
12 Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before .
13 You must be prepared for all eventualities , however , and not find yourself being asked to take charge in an area where you have insufficient clinical knowledge and experience .
14 Be prepared for many , many rejection slips .
15 In the planning process , plans are prepared for each business unit which are consolidated into divisional plans which in turn are consolidated into the total corporate plan .
16 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 .
17 Your students will be prepared for each news item by structured discussion , and then helped with language and comprehension while watching ; after each item , they will practise and consolidate skills and vocabulary , through parallel reading and further exercises ; and finally they will be able to express themselves in follow-up writing tasks and communicative activities , such as making their own radio broadcast .
18 Exact sizes have to be cut and prepared for each model .
19 Identical meals were prepared for each study day and they were eaten within 30 minutes of serving .
20 In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure .
21 But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity .
22 I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes .
23 She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault .
24 But the Blues are prepared for such eventualities .
25 Be prepared for such eventualities ( e.g. rehearse an appropriate verbal ‘ routine ’ , and have a back-up successful demonstration available on video ) .
26 Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
27 Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch .
28 It is good to know that people are carefully prepared for this great venture and that both the would-be parents and their home are thoroughly investigated as to suitability .
29 If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand .
30 Thus if learners are aiming to communicate naturally , they need to be prepared for this by being involved in natural communicative language use in the classroom .
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