Example sentences of "[prep] preparing [pron] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly in the work that the Greater York er authorities did in preparing their proposals over the past er four or five years , er we have worked fairly closely with what was then the Yorkshire Water Authority and National Rivers Authorities on the questions of drainage erm and so forth which are our major problems around York . |
| 2 | Parents have a crucial role to play in preparing their children for an independent adult life but may in practice unwittingly inhibit that progress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His work on Glastonbury was assisted by research there , and in preparing his histories of English kings and bishops , the Gesta Regum and the Gesta Pontificum , both of which appeared in 1125 and were revised subsequently , he seems to have visited most of the major cathedrals and abbeys in England , examining their archives and listening to their oral traditions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The information will be of great help in preparing my remarks to the conference which will take place in Oxford in April . |
| 8 | In addition to preparing their accounts in accordance with the technical requirements relevant to their status under the Companies Acts and Statements of Standard Accounting Practice , this year 's entrants also had to contend with SORP 2 , Accounting by Charities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Every general has his own method for preparing his troops for battle and I am no exception . |