Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] prepared for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they mean that the pilot has to be prepared for a possible launch failure or cable break on every flight . |
| 2 | As nearly 50 per cent of women over 65 live alone , compared with only 16 per cent of men , it is a possibility which has to be prepared for . |
| 3 | A user also has to be prepared for only rudimentary backup and restore features making NT a dicey choice for mission-critical and commercially sensitive environments . |
| 4 | Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election . |
| 5 | He would have to be prepared for Godolphin 's wrath . |
| 6 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 7 | The pattern caused problems , in that the circumstances which might trigger off renewed fighting were unpredictable ; yet the moment an opportunity offered , princes had to be prepared for invading their enemies ; there was no time for lengthy preparation . |
| 8 | To give you another example , the initial design for the Dalek had to be prepared for a Monday morning meeting . |
| 9 | You always had to be prepared for anything . " |
| 10 | The eel had to be prepared for her journey by staff at the centre who gradually acclimatised her in their newly built quarantine unit . |
| 11 | You have to be prepared for anything on TV . |
| 12 | If Third World countries are to tighten their belts , then their governments have to be prepared for trouble , because starving people get desperate . |
| 13 | ‘ If it 's any comfort , I 've never known all the beds to be full , but we have to be prepared for any eventuality . |
| 14 | But we have to be prepared for the unexpected . |
| 15 | And in a way , what they then have to be prepared for is people who are living into adult life because health for children is better — and this is true of many parts of the world , not only Latin America , but also Africa — and you 're going to have to find more jobs . |