Example sentences of "[prep] be prepare for " in BNC.

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1 th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident .
2 However , they mean that the pilot has to be prepared for a possible launch failure or cable break on every flight .
3 She was sent to him to be prepared for confirmation .
4 Mr Hans Modrow , the new prime minister , has told East Germans to be prepared for ‘ unpopular measures ’ which will be agreed by the government today .
5 ’ As I read it we could not restrain abundant tears and I felt instinctively as if it were a gentle , loving hint to us to be prepared for what followed . ’
6 Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis .
7 Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election .
8 Integrated Development Programmes ( IDPs ) are to be prepared for areas where agricultural development depends on simultaneous investment in infrastructure and other sectors .
9 The Ness Co-operative have moved , in nine months , from an attitude of , ‘ They should do it ’ to a conviction of , ‘ We must do it ourselves ’ , and have established a vegetable co-operative , bought a combine harvester , leased an unused schoolhouse garden which they will sponsor as a Job Creation Scheme to be prepared for use as a nursery and demonstration area for horticulture , and intend leasing an entire croft belonging to a member of the Community Association .
10 You will need to be prepared for these with stout walking shoes .
11 Your colleague , Mr L K Engels , has written to Simon Murison-Bowie requesting a copy of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic computer tape to be prepared for you on VM/CMS at 1600 bpi .
12 Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you .
13 The pace of legislative change in recent years has been relentless and advice workers need to be prepared for it in advance .
14 A paper was to be prepared for publication with the particulars of treatment and the results .
15 You need to be prepared for that .
16 As nearly 50 per cent of women over 65 live alone , compared with only 16 per cent of men , it is a possibility which has to be prepared for .
17 I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … .
18 You have to be prepared for anything on TV .
19 On the return journey , the Thornton Heath branch was covered and at Telford Avenue depôt , the party changed to another car and No. 1 had completed its last public journey in London , to be prepared for sale to Leeds .
20 Thus if learners are aiming to communicate naturally , they need to be prepared for this by being involved in natural communicative language use in the classroom .
21 To remedy the worst excesses of lack of scholarship and poor teaching the Queen , following earlier examples , ordered Books of Homilies to be prepared for use in all parish churches .
22 And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama .
23 He would have to be prepared for Godolphin 's wrath .
24 A user also has to be prepared for only rudimentary backup and restore features making NT a dicey choice for mission-critical and commercially sensitive environments .
25 The pattern caused problems , in that the circumstances which might trigger off renewed fighting were unpredictable ; yet the moment an opportunity offered , princes had to be prepared for invading their enemies ; there was no time for lengthy preparation .
26 A complete list of art objects lost between Germany and Russia during and after World War II is to be prepared for a new , German , state-funded foundation which will aim to help both countries to regain their lost or displaced art works .
27 Three or four bedded rooms usually mean a twin bedded room with extra folding beds ( or bunk-beds ) which means you need to be prepared for having less space in the room .
28 To give you another example , the initial design for the Dalek had to be prepared for a Monday morning meeting .
29 Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter .
30 They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood .
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