Example sentences of "[adv] prepare for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By balancing your calcium intake at an early age , your bones are better prepared for these potentially damaging changes . |
| 2 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 3 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 4 | Furthermore , they were not prepared for this by socialisation at school and at home . |
| 5 | Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now . |
| 6 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 7 | You are utterly prepared for this and utterly ignorant . |
| 8 | But his new slant sent waves of horrified shock through many of his contemporaries who had valued the fresh ad radical air of Dialectical Theology , but were scarcely prepared for such a wholesale repristination of — of all things ! — the doctrine of the Trinity . |
| 9 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 10 | These people are already preparing for that . |
| 11 | It is good to know that people are carefully prepared for this great venture and that both the would-be parents and their home are thoroughly investigated as to suitability . |
| 12 | The ground was well prepared for another bid for the nomination by Reagan in 1980 . |
| 13 | Les Conn : ‘ Well , of course , the people were n't prepared for that kind of entertainment and they all put their hands over their ears , and Bloom started screaming , ‘ Get them off , they 're ruining my wedding party ’ . |
| 14 | Somehow one is n't prepared for that kind of situation … |
| 15 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 16 | She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that . |
| 17 | Now he was fully prepared for both aspects of his profession . |
| 18 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |