Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst .
3 So the nurses were prepared for the worst , also .
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 By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress .
6 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 .
7 But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions .
8 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 .
9 The report was prepared for the United Nations in advance of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for 1992 .
10 And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst .
11 If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen .
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