Example sentences of "[pron] preparations for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of their preparations for the Olympic Games , the Olympic Racing Squad were due to fly to Florida last month for a fortnight 's training camp . |
| 2 | Cavan will complete their preparations for the game with a light work-out at Breifne Park tomorrow night . |
| 3 | Scotland 's European hopes , Aberdeen and Celtic , have started their preparations for the midweek matches with two of the continent 's most famous names . |
| 4 | The British men 's hockey team have been putting the final touches to their preparations for the Olympics . |
| 5 | As part of their preparations for the semi-final against Dublin the Derry squad spent the week-end prior to the game at the Slieve Russell Hotel , Ballyconnell and travelled into neighbouring Fermanagh for a practice match . |
| 6 | SCOTLAND have enlisted the help of leading sports psychologist , John Syer , to help their preparations for the men 's Western European Championships in Turkey in April . |
| 7 | She said goodnight a second time , and ran downstairs again , to wrestle with all her preparations for the morrow . |
| 8 | It is encouraging to see that the Society is also moving with the times and its work with people with a disability , mothers and toddlers and its preparations for the arrival of National Vocational Qualifications are to be commended . |
| 9 | The US State Department , in its advice to a new president ( Harry S. Truman ) from April 1945 , took up this theme in some detail in its preparations for the Potsdam Conference ( July–August ) . |
| 10 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 11 | He takes on Kenya 's former Olympic champion Paul Ereng in Hengelo , Holland , next Sunday and expects a hard race as part of his preparations for the World Championships in Stuttgart at the end of August . |
| 12 | Defences were feverishly reinforced , and unremitting artillery fire forced even the Crown Prince to admit that ‘ our preparations for the attack were considerably interrupted ’ . |