Example sentences of "[be] prepared for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kate , having been prepared for a fight over the amount of her luggage , was left with the wind taken out of her sails .
2 I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun .
3 The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been .
4 But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew .
5 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 .
6 The company has not traded during the above financial year , and accordingly no profit and loss account has been prepared for the year .
7 Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear .
8 Within a few months business looked good , so well had the way been prepared for the success of our own Community Station .
9 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 .
10 Only the lower bunk had been prepared for the night : the upper was still in the ceiling .
11 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 .
12 I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response .
15 Forms have been prepared for the assessment process , and amendments to the Client Index to support needs assessment are about to be commissioned .
16 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 .
17 The trackbed within the Avon Valley has already been prepared for the relaying , with the ballast cleaned and put into piles ready for reuse .
18 I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 PREPED Approval listings have been prepared for the package which has been requested for approval .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all .
27 ‘ I am prepared for a partition that will not put me to shame before the Arabs ’ they reported him as saying , and he assured me of them , Golda Meir , ‘ that he would not attack the partitioned Jewish State but that he would annex [ Arab ] Palestine . ’
28 The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century .
29 Sanding can be done yourself as long as you wear a medical mask ( from chemists or drug stores ) and are prepared for a lot of noise .
30 More often , however , hyperdocuments are prepared for a number of different readers , possibly distributed over different sites , and working in different hardware/software environments .
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