Example sentences of "[prep] preparing for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we began the delicate task of preparing for a reunion of mother and daughter . |
| 2 | Travel and practical experience abroad were not the only possible ways of preparing for a career in diplomacy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In preparing for a raid on a beach there was less opportunity to see the lie of the land than before conventional military raids . |
| 5 | 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 . |