Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 2 | In the late 1970s plans were prepared for a fleet of HSTs to operate the North East-South West ( Newcastle/Leeds-Cardiff/Plymouth ) route and these were introduced from 1982 . |
| 3 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
| 4 | The public were prepared for the change by an illustrated leaflet , and the cars carried illuminated Pay As You Enter signs . |
| 5 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
| 6 | A design brief was prepared for a flyover followed by advertising to recruit interested consortia . |
| 7 | During the summer and autumn of 1988 views from a wide variety of sources were collated by National Development Officers and a report was prepared for the Council 's Task Group . |
| 8 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
| 9 | The output from this analysis was summarised in the final report as a functional description of the filing systems , and used as the basis for the detailed user requirement that was prepared for the client . |
| 10 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 11 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |