Example sentences of "[verb] be preparing [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 2 | Crosby has been preparing the Roker side for an FA Cup semi-final against Norwich City at Hillsbrough this Sunday with the official title of first team coach . |
| 3 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock appears to have been preparing the ground for a possible arrangement with the Liberal Democrats by stressing his party 's commitment to proportional representation in a Scottish assembly , and to involve other parties in a review of alternative voting systems for the House of Commons . |
| 5 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 6 | I think it must have been left by workmen who had been preparing the crypt for the disposal of some saintly relic or the body of a recently deceased priest . |
| 7 | In anticipation of this , and at a time when the economy was already in grave crisis as a result of the US economic embargo , the collapse of trade with eastern Europe ( currently down by an estimated 90 per cent ) and poor sugar harvests , the Cuban government had been preparing the population for worse times ahead . |
| 8 | Joel Weiner , marketing executive of Kraft General Foods It is precisely because we are not complacent about this issue that the Government have been preparing a major Food Bill since October 1987 . |
| 9 | Since early summer , workmen have been preparing a new home for Mark , at Aston Farm , a mile away . |