Example sentences of "[be] prepared for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 2 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 3 | The company has not traded during the above financial year , and accordingly no profit and loss account has been prepared for the year . |
| 4 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 5 | Within a few months business looked good , so well had the way been prepared for the success of our own Community Station . |
| 6 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 7 | Only the lower bunk had been prepared for the night : the upper was still in the ceiling . |
| 8 | In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings . |
| 9 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |
| 10 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 11 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 12 | Forms have been prepared for the assessment process , and amendments to the Client Index to support needs assessment are about to be commissioned . |
| 13 | A planning brief has been prepared for the disposal of land at Town Farm , Sadberge , which the Darlington council bought and cleared of farm buildings in 1974 . |
| 14 | The trackbed within the Avon Valley has already been prepared for the relaying , with the ballast cleaned and put into piles ready for reuse . |
| 15 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 16 | Obviously , the pitch had been prepared for the spinners , but since West Indies had prepared many of their own pitches for their speed merchants they could hardly complain . |
| 17 | Well as I understand it the er these lawyers for the defendants took the view that as all the statements had been prepared for the police complaints authority investigation , public immunity er yes er public interest immunity attached to them . |
| 18 | PREPED Approval listings have been prepared for the package which has been requested for approval . |
| 19 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 20 | These guidelines have been prepared for the information and guidance of staff in centres preparing and offering the National Certificate in Travel , and should be read in conjunction with the module descriptors . |
| 21 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 22 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 23 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 24 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 25 | Many are kept in prison for several weeks , sometimes months , as was the case for Jean , whilst psychiatric and medical reports are prepared for the courts . |
| 26 | They are prepared for the Chancellor to announce some tax increases . |
| 27 | The commonest and most important of these are pre-sentence reports ( formerly known as social inquiry reports ) , which are prepared for the court by probation officers ( or by social workers in the case of some juvenile offenders ) . |
| 28 | Few women are prepared for the difficulties of running a home and bringing up young children . |
| 29 | And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration . |
| 30 | Those convening conferences should facilitate the attendance of parents and children by : ( i ) arranging conferences at a time convenient to parents and children as well as the professionals involved ; ( ii ) ensuring that the family are prepared for the conference by the professional worker best known to them ; ( iii ) arranging for them to meet the chair in advance ; ( iv ) ensuring that the family are briefed in advance on the issues to be raised so that they can seek advice and prepare what they have to say ; ( v ) limiting numbers to those who really need to attend ( para 6.23 ) . |