Example sentences of "[was/were] prepare [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the complementary strands . |
| 2 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 3 | The French , it soon appeared , were preparing a new invasion , of which more will be said later . |
| 4 | The Labour Party officially viewed the Convention as " an attempt to build up a new Political Party " , and indeed it is not improbable that the Communists , fearing illegality , were preparing a new organization on United Front lines into which they could merge if necessary . |
| 5 | Below her , technicians were preparing a long-range executive transporter for launch . |
| 6 | Yesterday , both Mr Fenton and Dr Reid were preparing a further assault on the media . |
| 7 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 8 | In 1927 ( when Eliot mentioned ‘ the Mongol in our midst ’ ) he told Bonamy Dobrée that he was preparing a small book , The Bolovian in Our Midst , proving that there was Bolovian blood in some of the leading figures of the day . |
| 9 | On May 19 Petar Beron , the UDF secretary , claimed during a tour of Western countries that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd was preparing a European Community ( EC ) declaration which would rule out assistance for communist governments . |
| 10 | At the time of writing this poem ( 11-14 March 1802 ) Wordsworth was preparing a new edition of Lyrical Ballads and revising his famous Preface . |
| 11 | He was preparing a detailed set of reference papers for the emergency session of the Academy . |
| 12 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 13 | When , later in 1582 , Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v. ] was preparing an American colonizing expedition , Clerke entered his service and served as master of his flagship , the Delight , first under William Winter and then Maurice Browne as captains , between June and August 1583 . |
| 14 | He had already prepared the ground for the extension of the concrete flooring , and , since this was likely to be the last Sunday of the year when it would not freeze , the next job was to prepare the concrete mixture , which lay against the wall in a large bag . |