Example sentences of "to prepare for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his party had done nothing substantial to prepare for serious post-election negotiations . |
| 2 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 3 | The Russian General Staff(Stavka) had to prepare for two eventualities , dependent on whether Germany 's main opening blow was directed into France or into Russia . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe I took too long to prepare for each jump . |
| 5 | Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’ |
| 6 | Police fought with students at Yaoundé University on April 2 , as they demanded the end of President Paul Biya 's rule and a national conference to prepare for political reform . |
| 7 | In an address to the European Parliament here Dr Kohl left no doubt that , at next month 's European Community summit , he would support moves to prepare for economic and monetary union . |
| 8 | Despite the scale and depth of change little was done to prepare for new demands of management . |
| 9 | She also hinted that the package may include a loosening of the benefit rules so that the long-term unemployed may take education or training courses to prepare for new jobs without being deemed to have made themselves unavailable for work . |
| 10 | Fortunately experience had taught the Alliance to prepare for such an eventuality , and they had standby arrangements for distribution and press coverage which were brought into operation . |
| 11 | At this week 's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC , scientists will report on efforts to prepare for such a mission . |
| 12 | A sensible way for her to prepare for such an eventuality is to keep a small case already packed and labelled with her name and address in her wardrobe or in a corner of her bedroom where it can be got at easily ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 13 | her mum really she 's got a lot on , she 'll have a lot on cos she 's got to prepare for that wedding , you know what you 're like when you , you 've got |
| 14 | Does he accept that some people prefer to prepare for international emergencies and not necessarily be involved in the local scene ? |
| 15 | According to the constitution of the united Germany , acts tending to and undertaken with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations , especially to prepare for aggressive war , are unconstitutional and a punishable offence . |
| 16 | From the EC angle , only the ratification of the Treaty and steady progress , by way of economic recovery and the growing-together of the Twelve's economies , can give the EC the economic muscle to assist Poland , Hungary and the Czech and Slovak republics to prepare for eventual accession ; the enormous cost of achieving German unification is a salutary warning in this regard . |
| 17 | SCOTTISH , Welsh and Northern Irish athletes will be able to prepare for next January 's Commonwealth Games in Auckland at training camps in Australia in spite of the financial constraints which have imposed limits on the size of their teams . |
| 18 | A meeting of the Committee of the Rambling Club , an essay or a report to prepare for next day , some knotty maths problems that seemed to have no solution , a party in the Junior Common Room , notes from a lecture on particle physics which needed tidying up ( Dr Glib talked so fast ! ) . |
| 19 | For the losers it 's back to the mirror to prepare for next year . |
| 20 | With relegation now a virtual certainty , Hankin has nothing to lose by including the likes of Reed , to prepare for next season . |
| 21 | The Argentinian captain returned to Buenos Aires yesterday for the match against Denmark tomorrow after club president , Luis Cuervas , had ordered Maradona to prepare for next weekend 's home fixture in Spain . |
| 22 | Moody 's has felt able to continue to give the companies such a blue chip bill of health because of the vigorous efforts they have made to prepare for growing competition — since the late 1980s , US telephone companies have restructured , sharply cut their costs , improved productivity , made more market-responsive investment decisions and invested heavily in their telecommunications networks — since 1988 , it reckons , productivity of the companies has risen 6% a year . |
| 23 | Additionally it might be argued that with the almost instantaneous transmission of information we have these days , the impact of hearing about individuals or groups or communities of people dying is that much greater because we have less time to prepare for bad news . |
| 24 | It took only a micro-second , but it told Jezrael to prepare for some movement from Kandinskaya 's left hand . |
| 25 | When in May 1951 he returned from his holiday in Spain , for example , he had at once to prepare for three different public engagements in the following month — the first weekend was to be spent at Brighton for the annual meeting of the Alliance Française , occasions which he now found appallingly dull ; then he was obliged to make a speech on behalf of the Cecil Houses Trust for old people , and give an address at Chichester Cathedral . |
| 26 | There are two new classes being run in the summer term : To prepare for those summer holidays , there is an Italian for beginners on Monday mornings and a five week course on Tuesday evenings set aside for couples and individuals who would like to explore ‘ communication within the family ’ with Jo Jordan , an experienced counselling therapist . |
| 27 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 28 | If you are going for a job that you have never done before , either from necessity or because you are looking for a change of direction , you should take care to prepare for this question by listing all the experience and personal qualities you have which suit you for the job . |
| 29 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 30 | Er that was silly er I did n't allow myself sufficient time to prepare for this opening and ob obviously to compose myself . |