Example sentences of "prepare [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 2 | Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash . |
| 3 | Diana , for her part , thought she would become a wife and mother ; but , with all the servants and secretaries who surrounded the Prince , including a valet who selected and prepared his clothes for the day , packed for him and even did his personal shopping , she felt superfluous , and just a little jealous . |
| 4 | During our last seven months , as we prepared our recommendations for the secondary stages , the officials of the National Curriculum Council under their Chairman , Duncan Graham , were rewriting the attainment targets for the primary stages , supposedly in accord with the consultation exercise and Mr Baker 's own proposals about grammar . |
| 5 | This means that one of the most difficult challenges facing an educational system is preparing its students for a world that has not yet even come into existence . |
| 6 | Randall smiled again with a hint of mockery , settled the bet and turning away with his kerchief pressed even more firmly to his nose , moved into the cockpit where the cock-masters were preparing their birds for the fight . |
| 7 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 8 | As they clustered at the door , preparing their faces for the raw air , she still sensed those eyes burning into her . |
| 9 | Parents have a crucial role to play in preparing their children for an independent adult life but may in practice unwittingly inhibit that progress . |
| 10 | These schools , given a far from warm reception when first proposed , are to be funded in a new way , are to fall altogether outside Local Authority control , and as their name implies are to be devoted primarily to preparing their pupils for a career in industry . |
| 11 | But many of their future commanders — John Durnford-Slater , Peter Young , Mike Calvert among them — were preparing their men for a new type of soldiering . |
| 12 | Having exhausted their historic potential , Gorbachev went on , the major capitalist countries had decided to accelerate the arms race and militarism of all kinds , and were deliberately preparing their populations for nuclear war . |
| 13 | Shakespearean editors are showing considerable innovation in moving away from the view that Shakespeare had a fixed conception for his plays , where variants between texts are ‘ error of transmission ’ , corruptions which crept in because Shakespeare was not involved in preparing his plays for print . |
| 14 | Every general has his own method for preparing his troops for battle and I am no exception . |
| 15 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 16 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 17 | The programme should guide WACC in the ensuing years and prepare its members for the second World Congress in 1995 . |
| 18 | Chief officers prepare their estimates for the coming year , setting out present spending plus price increases and what would be necessary to meet existing commitments . |
| 19 | Indeed MEPs in Strasbourg would be well advised , as they prepare their demands for greater powers under EMU , to strike a united front with their national colleagues . |
| 20 | There was , then , unanimous agreement that the overriding function of the continuation schools was to prepare their pupils for ‘ the efficient discharge of the duties of citizenship ’ , but it was also understood that in order to make this viable , young people had to be taught to ‘ increase their adaptability and skill in bread-winning occupations ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Smith 's problems are not so much physical , apart from Chamberlain 's injured knee , but how to prepare his players for tomorrow 's important Second Division promotion game at Tranmere . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Coventry boss Bobby Gould has used a touch of ‘ pure genius ’ to prepare his players for the match . |
| 23 | COVENTRY manager Bobby Gould used a touch of ‘ pure genius ’ to prepare his players for today 's top-of-the-table clash with Norwich . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence has to prepare his players for a final push after a gruelling season . |
| 25 | When he had started to prepare his notes for this occasion , he was overwhelmed by private memories : St Louis was the place of his birth , and Washington University itself owed its foundation to his grandfather ; and when in the lecture he spoke of the characteristics of a national literature , and American literature in particular , as " a strong local flavour combined with an unconscious universality " it is clear to what locale he belongs . |
| 26 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 27 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |
| 28 | We do , as stated earlier , have an overriding obligation to prepare our graduates for their future through provision of not only conceptual understanding but also practical experience across all sectors of the profession . |