Example sentences of "[adv] prepared for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without having suffered the turmoil of a leadership contest , Labour can boast that it is better prepared for an election than the Conservatives . |
| 2 | PSYCHOLOGICALLY the Aztecs were probably better prepared for the invasion of Cortes than Irish rugby is for the arrival of the All Blacks . |
| 3 | Local employers and employees , unions and other statutory bodies were involved in this work in an attempt to be better prepared for the crisis . |
| 4 | The consolation for him and for Britain is that he has been far better prepared for the emotional pressures of his destiny than ever his father was . |
| 5 | The only difference now is that people are not surprised and perhaps , therefore , better prepared for the shock . |
| 6 | This time round , thinks Aidan Mullaly , a negotiator for TM Energy Consultants , the RECs are better prepared for the negotiating process and are unlikely to panic as some did last year at the threat of a loss of business . |
| 7 | In some ways , however , Alexander was better prepared for the throne than either of his immediate predecessors . |
| 8 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 9 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 10 | But if the public expected from the Berliners memorable Beethoven and even more memorable Brahms ( a Brahms cycle appeared in 1964 ) , they were perhaps less prepared for the miraculously fluid Debussy record that appeared in 1964 — La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune coupled with the Second Suite from Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé — or recordings of Sibelius 's Fourth or Fifth symphonies that quite eclipsed the earlier Philharmonia recording , and the Shostakovich Tenth . |
| 11 | According to this latter explanation , whether it be a matter of dialect ( Labov , 1970 ) or sociolinguistic code ( Bernstein , 1971 ) , the disadvantage experienced by many lower-class children is said to be in their being inadequately prepared for the linguistic demands of the classroom by having learned a different model of language in use from their parents and the other members of their immediate language community . |
| 12 | Men courted her constantly , taking off their riding wigs just short of the lime avenue and putting on their grand ceremonial perukes which their servants carried in bandboxes on the pommel of their saddles , ‘ duly prepared for an attack on the heart of the young heiress ’ . |
| 13 | By welcoming you to a serene enclave where requests are carried out with distinction and despatch , meals may be enjoyed in your room at any hour , and you are courteously awakened with the day 's forecast , thus properly prepared for the elements . |
| 14 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 15 | The ground was thus prepared for a fully fledged revival . |
| 16 | Now that virtue could be acknowledged in the toddler as he freely followed his own natural pursuits and interests — not excluding the exploration of his own body-the ground was finally prepared for an acceptance of babies ' desires as needs in themselves : ‘ Babies want attention ; they probably need plenty of it ’ ( Children 's Bureau , 1945 ) . |
| 17 | She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her . |
| 18 | With the Berlin Wall , the most famous barrier of all , falling , the more media-conscious activists among the Soviet Jews already here are warning that Israel is just not prepared for the influx . |
| 19 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 20 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 21 | I 'm not prepared for the deafening ‘ bang ’ as the sides of the box collapse and my moment of entry is masked by puthers of ‘ smoke ’ . |
| 22 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 23 | They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences . |
| 24 | Originally Jesus probably directed this parable against the Jews who were not prepared for the coming of the Messiah and would not accept him . |
| 25 | They were not prepared for the thousands of young people demonstrating on the streets , apparently with Deng 's blessing . |
| 26 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 27 | The brochure said that the Pyramid of the Sun was over sixty metres high , larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt , and the Street of the Dead more than three kilometres long , but even though it contained a plan , as well as photographs , I was still not prepared for the colossal dimensions of the place . |
| 28 | Interviewed on Dec. 15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An admitted that Cambodian troops , " fighting alone for the first time " , were not prepared for the intensity of the rebel assault . |
| 29 | So if you could precis or select from the text that you 've already prepared for the annual report , something that will go in there that says why your functions are |
| 30 | Long-range tanks were fitted and tested , guns were checked and the Hurricanes generally prepared for the flight from Benina ( near Benghazi ) to Malta . |