Example sentences of "[noun] prepared [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 2 | The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions . |
| 3 | Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ? |
| 4 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 5 | Classical pharmacology prepared us for receptor diversity in that each of the stimuli listed in Fig. 1 acts through a separate receptor . |
| 6 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 7 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 8 | There is , therefore , an acceptance that work as it is experienced is ‘ what school prepared us for ’ . |