Example sentences of "[was/were] prepare a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The French , it soon appeared , were preparing a new invasion , of which more will be said later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Below her , technicians were preparing a long-range executive transporter for launch . |
| 5 | Yesterday , both Mr Fenton and Dr Reid were preparing a further assault on the media . |
| 6 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was preparing a detailed set of reference papers for the emergency session of the Academy . |