Example sentences of "[verb] to prepare for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , all this helped to prepare for the militarist attitude that the party was to take when war came , when it could advocate conscription without any fear of the electoral consequences . |
| 2 | With a planned hospital stay you will have been told to prepare for the operation as best as you can , perhaps by losing some weight , discontinuing any medication that you may be taking , or attempting to stop smoking . |
| 3 | ANTI-apartheid supporters around the world were told to prepare for the lifting of international sanctions against South Africa during an African National Congress conference yesterday . |
| 4 | Bells played a prominent part in medieval life , and mechanisms for ringing them , made of toothed wheels and oscillating levers , may have helped to prepare for the invention of mechanical clocks . |
| 5 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 6 | Military , police and reconnaissance experts immediately began to prepare for the arrival of the 14,000-strong force in the UN-protected areas of Eastern and Western Slavonia and Krajina , three Serb-held enclaves in eastern and southern Croatia . |
| 7 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 8 | They will continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the British Coal Corporation . |
| 9 | It would be weak for the Government to deny it , because the ink of the Queen 's Speech is hardly dry , and it stated that the Government will ’ continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Coal Corporation . ’ |
| 10 | As the Queen 's Speech put it , the Government ’ will continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Coal Corporation . ’ |
| 11 | They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley . |
| 12 | WHEN Ronnie Moran was first thrust into the Liverpool manager 's chair 14 months ago , the team he inherited from Kenny Dalglish proceeded to lose three successive matches before getting back on an even keel to prepare for the arrival of Graeme Souness . |
| 13 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 14 | John the Baptist , as the last in the long line of Old Testament prophets , called upon the nation to repent to prepare for the Kingdom whose coming was imminent ( Matt. |
| 15 | In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings . |
| 16 | ‘ I always have to prepare for the day 's lessons , If I want everything to go smoothly , ’ she explains . |