Example sentences of "in preparing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The understanding of our history we achieved in preparing for the 70th anniversary of October is not something frozen and given once and for all .
2 There are substantial hints that if paternal family experience encouraged Edward to extend his interests , both in preparing for a career and in his natural history pursuits , along practical and fact-gathering lines , the subtler influence of his mother and her family gave approval to the sudden spurt of interest in the affective literature of Richard Jefferies and , even more , to the reading of poetry for its own sake .
3 Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin .
4 There has been a revolution in the way people can provide for their retirement with the introduction of personal pensions and greater flexibility in preparing for retirement .
5 Stewart has seemed distinctly ill-at-ease in preparing for the fight .
6 Thus in preparing for your meeting be sure of the objective and give consideration to the possible scope of the discussion .
7 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
8 Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life .
9 Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting .
10 Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations .
11 In preparing for a raid on a beach there was less opportunity to see the lie of the land than before conventional military raids .
12 In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny .
13 ‘ But it is foolish to ignore this important element in preparing for work . ’
14 Although the Code is the tool of the qualified practitioner it is still the model for all current nursing students in preparing for their roles as nurses and advocates of the patient .
15 In preparing for war in 1337 it was essential for Edward to gain the support both of the nobility and of the wider political community .
16 This interest comprises the out-of-pocket expenses resulting from misplaced reliance upon another , including wasted expenditure in preparing for the performance of a transaction , or partly performing it , losses arising from damage to property , and missed opportunities .
17 The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant .
18 A scene of high tension can be greatly enhanced if it is preceded by a passage of comedy , as Shakespeare in preparing for Macbeth 's murder of Duncan well knew .
19 What follows is a check list of issues to be considered in preparing for and making the decision .
20 The Department has subscribed to the CIPFA/ADSS Financial Management and has access to the material produced which is designed to assist Local Authorities in preparing for the changes to be implemented on 1 April this year .
21 and everybody seems to keep burying their head in the sa well when I say everybody I mean the Tech particularly are burying their head in the sand , they do n't seem to want to invest anything in preparing for , they 're called Youth Credits now are n't they ?
22 The initial procedure in preparing for analysis is the systematic checking of the materials to ensure that identification numbers and labels are all present and legible .
23 On the second day of the Workshop those who attended the first meeting will return to participate in activities which will assist in preparing for their own course validation event .
24 SCOTVEC staff briefed the principals on the latest developments and the principals reported to SCOTVEC on their experience in offering Phase i Pilots and in preparing for Phase 2 .
25 One of the initiatives is to encourage more teacher placements in industry , so that those in education who have gone from school to college and back to school as teachers and who have not experienced life in industry or commerce can be exposed to it , the better to assist their pupils in preparing for a working career .
26 Nevertheless MAS can assist the purchaser in preparing for the meeting .
27 MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting .
28 The aids which can be used in preparing for joint management are those of information derived from comparisons , clarity of purpose and a readiness to undertake corporate self-assessment .
29 If Gould could be hyperactive and despotic at the best of times , how much more demanding must he have been in preparing for this journey of a lifetime .
30 When I addressed the General Meeting last year I was heavily involved in preparing for the move from Gray 's Inn to Bedford Row .
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