Example sentences of "[vb past] to prepare for the [noun] " 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 In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers .
3 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 .
4 It was that time of year when England began to prepare for the Guy Fawkes celebrations of 5 November .
5 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 .
6 In October 1940 my last year at school began ; it was going to be a year of hard work , as I had to prepare for the June examinations .
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