Example sentences of "[being] prepared [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snotty-nosed chamberlain tapped his wand on the floor and we were led along marble corridors , through chambers being prepared for the great banquet , past nobles draped in velvet and cloth of gold , retainers in blue , violet and scarlet liveries , all chatting merrily in French . |
| 2 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 3 | Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 4 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 5 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 6 | He had learned his lesson regarding being prepared from the previous Friday night . |
| 7 | A pensions directive is currently being prepared by the European Commission and it will require extremely careful consideration if it is to achieve the desired effect of not restricting labour mobility with the European Community . |
| 8 | I advised the Labour Party over such things as the Vassall inquiry and , together with my friend Dennis Lloyd , I was on a number of committees and investigations to recommend changes in the law — particularly land law ( the working party on land nationalisation ) and the law of landlord and tenant — which were being prepared by the Labour Party for their future use . |
| 9 | At the government 's request , a report was being prepared by the International Trade Commission which , had the bill been passed , may have led to it being declared illegal for blocking international trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| 10 | Written in June 1936 , " Secrets de l'Espagne " , Nizan 's extended analysis of the Spanish situation for La Correspondance internationale , bears witness not only to his perceptiveness ( " There is emerging on the Republican horizon a fascist bid for power the conditions for which are being prepared by the social unrest orchestrated by the right " ) , but also to his enormous talent as a political reporter . |