Example sentences of "[noun] be prepare for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst .
2 Although Bosnia has teetered on the brink of war for months , the intensity and scope of the weekend fighting indicated that the three communities are preparing for the worst .
3 WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander .
4 QUEEN 'S ladies ' hockey team is preparing for the new season and looking for fresh talent .
5 The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour .
6 ‘ Orders were orders ! ’ he roared , looking darkly at the friar , before going on to regale both him and the horses with an account of the meal his poor wife was preparing for the coming Sunday .
7 The housekeeping departments has to ensure that all rooms are prepared for the new arrivals and when a room is vacated the chambermaids have to change the linen and clean the room ready for the next letting .
8 A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst — sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation .
9 Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation .
10 An RAF base and a military hospital are preparing for the possible arrival of a flight carrying children wounded in the fighting in Sarajevo .
11 He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together .
12 The theses advocated both support for national liberation movements and agitation to ensure that workers and peasants were prepared for the Soviet revolution which was to follow , a policy contradiction which was never resolved .
13 The snotty-nosed chamberlain tapped his wand on the floor and we were led along marble corridors , through chambers being prepared for the great banquet , past nobles draped in velvet and cloth of gold , retainers in blue , violet and scarlet liveries , all chatting merrily in French .
14 In practice , local authorities almost always consider anything sent to them until the point where the report is prepared for the relevant committee or even later .
15 And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons .
16 But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions .
17 The report was prepared for the United Nations in advance of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for 1992 .
18 So the nurses were prepared for the worst , also .
19 Its purpose was to prepare for the coming struggle between good order under a monarchy , and the revolutionary socialism of the sort to which republics often sink-until , that is , conditions deteriorate to the point where people are ready to revolt against the system and return to the rule of an even more powerful dictator .
20 By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress .
21 By 1934 the Labour Party was Preparing for the next election and the delegates at Southport resisted the attempts of the Socialist League to change the programme For Socialism and Peace into a radical appeal for a rapid transformation to socialism .
22 My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal .
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