Example sentences of "be [adv] preparing for " in BNC.

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1 Although winter is still firmly in control in the far northern regions of the Arctic , birds are already preparing for the coming season by moulting into fresh breeding plumage .
2 Most of us are still thinking about our Summer holidays , but one group of people are already preparing for Christmas !
3 These people are already preparing for that .
4 Cos you 're actually preparing for the credits bef the year , the academic year before are n't you ?
5 At the same time , elements of the 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ( 1 RFF ) , one of two non-parachute-trained battalions in the brigade , are also preparing for an airborne operation .
6 Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter .
7 As I oversee the finishing touches of this Christmas issue of Pipeline , I am also preparing for a special production of my own !
8 We are now preparing for the next critical round .
9 Thousands of refugees in Afghanistan who 've fled conflict and civil war are now preparing for a further challenge … the bitter winter ahead .
10 They are now preparing for a special anniversary concert in the Crypt Concert Room at the cathedral on November 14 .
11 They have undertaken an independent training course and induction programme , and are now preparing for their first meeting .
12 I 'm really preparing for something .
13 Congressional threats to resist the dissolution of the Congress , however , were not expected to materialize and the major parties were already preparing for the election campaign .
14 Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta .
15 Brough Park , which last night hosted the final of the 2,000 Guineas , is now preparing for next month 's Northumberland Puppy Cup , which offers prize money of £2,000 for the winner .
16 I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication .
17 Jamila said nothing and Helen was eager to talk about Charlie , a subject on which she was obviously preparing for an advanced degree .
18 The driver was obviously preparing for a grand-prix start .
19 At sixteen , having taken her Higher School Certificate , she was already preparing for her first MD examination .
20 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 .
21 Tony was always preparing for the future with David and with MainMan , so he was always two or three steps ahead of himself .
22 And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war .
23 The AWB , he said , was now preparing for revolution and its main priority would be the strengthening of its commandos .
24 For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war .
25 In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final .
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