Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of the French , the majority , who at least implicitly gave their allegiance to Vichy France , were prepared for a wary collaboration with the Japanese and as Admiral Decoux , the French Governor-General appointed by Marshal pétain , always maintained , they were determined , no matter what happened in France , to preserve the French position in Indochina . |
| 2 | They were prepared for an unyielding defence of their two flocks of 10,000 battery hens against the Ministry of Agriculture and the 10 burly ex-miners who form the ministry 's chicken-killing squad , ever-ready to wring a feathered neck . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 5 | Rice starch ( Sigma Chemical Co ) and rice powder ( local supermarket ) ORS were prepared with an identical electrolyte composition and glucose content ( after complete hydrolysis ) to HYPO-ORS . |
| 6 | The bulletins used for the Zambian languages were prepared in the early morning , because ZBS staff required time for translation . |
| 7 | The diets were prepared in the metabolic kitchen of the unit . |
| 8 | Three experimental diets were prepared from a standard formula plus pure oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid ( 2% by weight ) . |
| 9 | To this end , three experimental diets were prepared from a standard rodent diet supplemented with pure oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid . |
| 10 | The experimental diets were prepared from a standard formula that included the following semisynthetic components ( wt/wt ) : 20% casein , 1% methionine , 32% corn starch , 15% sucrose , 5% methyl-cellulose , 12% fat emulsion ( Calogen , Scientific Hospital Supplies , Liverpool , UK ; consisting of 50% water , 11% linoleic acid , 28% oleic acid , and 9% saturated fatty acids ) , 3% balanced salt mixture , 0.1% α-tocopherol ( Roig Farma , Barcelona , Spain ) , and a 10% supplement including vitamins , inerals , and dextrin ( Seravit , Scientific Hospital Supplies ) . |
| 11 | For this purpose , three special diets were prepared from a standard diet that was supplemented with oleic or linoleic acid or eicosapentaenoic acid . |
| 12 | Nuclei were prepared from an NF-L expressing ( SKNSH ) and non-expressing ( HeLa and K562 ) human cell lines and subjected to limited DNaseI digestion . |
| 13 | Freeze fracture replicas were prepared from the endoscopic biopsy specimens of 20 patients with gastric ulcer ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) and seven healthy volunteers ( four men and three women , aged 41 ( 19 ) years ) . |
| 14 | Whole cell extracts ( 10 ) were prepared from the following adult rat tissues ; brain , dorsal root ganglia , cerebellum , spinal cord , testis and spleen . |
| 15 | Polytene chromosomes were prepared from the salivary glands of third instar larvae as described previously ( 29 ) . |
| 16 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
| 17 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Guidance on conduct and ethics generally was prepared for a revised edition of the Guide to the Professional Conduct of Solicitors , and a complete new set of accounts rules came into force in June 1992 . |
| 19 | By 1984 the government , however , was prepared for a lengthy coal strike and refused to compromise . |
| 20 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 21 | The package , called Catholic Connections to Media Literacy , was prepared for The Catholic Communication Campaign of the United States Catholic Conference in collaboration with the National Catholic Educational Association . |
| 22 | But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 23 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 24 | The report was prepared for the United Nations in advance of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for 1992 . |
| 25 | The findings were documented in a report A Place For All Our Children ( CCUF 1983 ) and an analysis was prepared of the practical and bureaucratic problems in gaining an ordinary childcare place for a child with special needs , with suggestions for how these might be overcome . |
| 26 | Control medium was prepared with a similar dilution of alcohol and in a pilot study had no obvious effect on proliferation . |
| 27 | In 1880 the first cyclic sulphur-nitrogen free radical — — was prepared as a deep green powder with a metallic lustre . |
| 28 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 29 | The Tyne and Wear Structure Plan was prepared in the late 1970s and finalized in 1980 . |
| 30 | In each series of probe preparations , a wild type control was prepared in an identical manner at the same time . |