Example sentences of "[was/were] prepare for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1970s plans were prepared for a fleet of HSTs to operate the North East-South West ( Newcastle/Leeds-Cardiff/Plymouth ) route and these were introduced from 1982 . |
| 2 | They were prepared for an unyielding defence of their two flocks of 10,000 battery hens against the Ministry of Agriculture and the 10 burly ex-miners who form the ministry 's chicken-killing squad , ever-ready to wring a feathered neck . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 4 | So the nurses were prepared for the worst , also . |
| 5 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
| 6 | And I think we succeeded in our Phalangist youth movement because we created young men who were prepared for politics . ’ |
| 7 | The public were prepared for the change by an illustrated leaflet , and the cars carried illuminated Pay As You Enter signs . |
| 8 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 9 | Plans were prepared for trolleybus conversion on a large scale . |
| 10 | The persons assigned to act as regional commissioners were placed on standby and the secret bunkers from which they would control their regions were prepared for occupation . |
| 11 | Bids were prepared for commercial work in the Falkland Islands and Laos . |
| 12 | Contributions to a proposal for the production of a geochemical atlas of western Europe , including an inventory of regional geochemical surveys of western Europe and a summary of the vertical distribution of trace elements in floodplain sediments in the United Kingdom , were prepared for the WEGS Working Group . |
| 13 | Bids were prepared for commercial work in the Falkland Islands and Laos . |
| 14 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 15 | His directors , however , were prepared for no such sacrifice … |
| 16 | Those of the French , the majority , who at least implicitly gave their allegiance to Vichy France , were prepared for a wary collaboration with the Japanese and as Admiral Decoux , the French Governor-General appointed by Marshal pétain , always maintained , they were determined , no matter what happened in France , to preserve the French position in Indochina . |
| 17 | Neither the Austrians nor the Russians , and still less the British , wanted to see a complete dismemberment of the Turkish empire , but they were prepared for de facto autonomy for Serbia . |
| 18 | Case studies of alternative schemes were prepared for settlements of different sizes and conditions : Newbury , Norwich , Leeds and Central London . |
| 19 | The theses advocated both support for national liberation movements and agitation to ensure that workers and peasants were prepared for the Soviet revolution which was to follow , a policy contradiction which was never resolved . |
| 20 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 21 | ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited . |
| 22 | The report recommended approval and development on a national basis , but with modifications so as to ensure that those taking the courses were prepared for employment . |
| 23 | Well , we were prepared for their sarcasm , we were prepared for their bill . |
| 24 | Well , we were prepared for their sarcasm , we were prepared for their bill . |
| 25 | The Mulberry idea was first suggested as early as 1942 and Naval parties made repeated night crossings to take soundings and measurements from which charts were prepared for various landing sites . |
| 26 | Identical meals were prepared for each study day and they were eaten within 30 minutes of serving . |
| 27 | The liver appeared normal but access to the portal vein was difficult so the infrarenal inferior vena cava and aorta were prepared for anastomosis . |
| 28 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |