Example sentences of "[prep] prepare [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Researchers also managed to trap the ethyl radical , C 2 H 5 , another classic organic intermediate , after preparing it from a precursor containing carbon dioxide .
2 Now this comes into sort of preparing what you ought to have ready when you 're about to make your will .
3 Many people have developed their own ways of preparing them selves , such as rehearsing what they are going to do in their mind .
4 The Craigie Mains stud prospered and James Kilpatrick learned the skills of breeding horses and of preparing them to look their best in the highly competitive show ring .
5 This speech style urged on little girls is , however , a way of preparing them for their subordinate place in adult society .
6 They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future .
7 At all events , I shall be much obliged to you if you will write to me as soon as possible — in order that , if you do not hold out any hope , he may not lose time , and if you do , that you may receive further information ; and he be put into the way of preparing himself , according to your wishes , for the situation .
8 This is one of the earliest references we have in Milton to his own dedication to the task of preparing himself for leaving something to aftertimes that it would not willingly let die .
9 Of course he complained when he entered political writing instead of preparing himself for his poem .
10 This is to ask whether Labour is not in danger — again — of preparing itself to address yesterday 's agenda .
11 It was he , after all , who was the master of the Art , and now that Louisa had taken upon herself the task of preparing his way he was freed from the immediate pressure of time .
12 As part of our mission requires this publication to keep its readers alert to the future of IBM and the wonders the company will doubtless work , we will — begging your understanding and forgiveness in what we feel is a justifiable revelation of inside information — part the cloak of secrecy that surrounds Hollywood 's dreams and IBM 's intentions in the interest of preparing you for tomorrow .
13 There 's no other way of preparing someone but God how I hate those words .
14 If the package can be prepared for approval a prompt will appear at the foot of this page to give you the choice of preparing it or not .
15 So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all .
16 In preparing ours for today and the whole question of thinking of being , main precedency of communion rests in our understanding erm , of ordination , which I know later we we will have time to discuss .
17 The problem had been compounded in 1929 when , in preparing its anticipated difficult bid for further renewal of the Cassell grant , the District had sought to bolster its ‘ pioneering tutor ’ case by persuading Miss Green to consider offering her preliminary courses in Huntingdonshire , a county without any adult education provision .
18 MMC also said that in preparing its business plan each of our businesses should carry out a strategic review of its options in conjunction with a product/market sector analysis .
19 It would be very helpful to the Regional Council in preparing its case for this inquiry to have a copy of the proofs of evidence presented by your officials at the inquiry relating to the Oxford United proposals .
20 " In preparing its opinion on the Swiss application " the Commission was " to take into account the views of the Swiss authorities following the Dec. 6 referendum " [ see this page ] .
21 Another simulator , costing £25m , is languishing in storage at a rate of £95,000 a month , because of delays in preparing its new site .
22 When you heard me I was imagining a process whereby you 'd have a strategic sites policy in the structure plan which would enable a local authority in preparing its local plan if it wished to identify a strategic site and that would then become in the local plan , you know subject to all those consultation processes , and then it 's part of the portfolio that is available in the published arena with a statutory framework behind it .
23 He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come .
24 Although presenters are encouraged to take an active part in preparing their programmes , this work is basically the responsibility of producers .
25 He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council .
26 Two companies assist the business units in preparing their plans .
27 Parents have a crucial role to play in preparing their children for an independent adult life but may in practice unwittingly inhibit that progress .
28 Part of that rally — and I am immodest enough to think a not unimportant part — was to enlist the services of my partner John Montgomerie ( Monty ) and myself to assist in preparing their answer to the consultative document .
29 In addition , the Regional document was the resource on which most schools depended in preparing their own health education policies .
30 In preparing their report , the auditors are required ( by section 237 ) to carry out such investigations as will enable them to form an opinion as to whether proper accounting records have been kept by the company and whether the company 's balance sheet and ( if not consolidated ) its profit and loss account are in agreement with the accounting records and returns .
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