How To Use Preparatory In A Sentence

Both were sent to preparatory schools. Times, Sunday Times
But the preparatory drawings of individual members of the family remain. Times, Sunday Times
At a preparatory hearing he raised possible defences of duress, necessity and public interest.
After attending two preparatory schools, he was admitted as a scholar to Winchester College in 1752.
Children begin school in kindergarten and attend elementary, preparatory, and secondary school.

Only 5 percent of students take a college preparatory course in secondary school.
Oh, nothin 'p'tic'lar," answered Ans, flinging his hat at a chicken that made as though to come in, and rolling up his sleeves preparatory to sozzling his face at the sink. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed. Ulysses
The group is considering opening further sites, including preparatory and international schools. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond the strip of level ground there is a ‘short steep preparatory slope’ (a one-in-three incline, as we later learn), slaty and with only the sparsest vegetation.
Other groups were critical of the voting process in the governorates weeks ago accusing the preparatory committee and governmental officials of behind the scenes manipulation and favouritism in the election of delegates.
The spokeswoman said that contractors were now on site carrying out early preparatory work, and plans were in hand to close the gap within the next few weeks.
Great difficulties ensued, since no preparatory work of any kind had been done either by the delegations of the countries or by the respective governments. Refugees in the Age of Total War
Some of them are preparatory drawings for bigger works, such as finished oil paintings that may be hanging in a museum somewhere. Times, Sunday Times
Brian was therefore sent to a preparatory school on the south coast as a boarder.
High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
Below, a couple of men were sewing the "bricklayer's" body in canvas preparatory to the sea burial. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
The senior officials have so far held three rounds of preparatory meetings this year.
However, writing teaching of elementary and intermediate stage of preparatory course is characteristic of its own.
High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
They contacted the preparatory school 's headmaster last year to return a jacket sent by the teacher to their son as a present. Times, Sunday Times
Only a few preparatory drawings are thought to have survived. The Times Literary Supplement
In these preparatory drawings, Hesse envisions a kind of canister with a false bottom that emits a rubber hose - like an oil lamp with a long wick or, more significantly, a yahrzeit candle.
Most have been to a prehab class (30 minutes of preparatory stretching) to open up and loosen their muscles first. Times, Sunday Times
Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.
I know that they have been carrying out the preparatory work to effect the repairs needed.
Besides, where was the prolonged preparatory artillery bombardment? Times, Sunday Times
On Sunday, the preparatory board met to begin planning a national congress of 1000 notables, politicians, religious leaders and tribal sheikhs to be held in July.
Some preparatory or junior schools also offer scholarships, but awards for children under the age of seven are rare.
The gentle hunger, the fresh rite, the sensation, the facticity of tabletop dining are all captured with both precision and painterliness through a photographic preparatory stage.
Imagine the Lord laying aside a silk cady preparatory to preaching that Sermon on the Mount -- or Napoleon apostrophizing the pyramids in a plug! The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
My 10-year-old son attends a good preparatory school. Times, Sunday Times
Both were sent to preparatory schools. Times, Sunday Times
Pummice, the splendid house-painters at Dollington, arrived with his artists and charwomen to give the Assembly Room its annual touching-up and bedizenment, preparatory to the Hunt Ball. Wylder's Hand
They fall into the basket, the correct notation shows, a click track plays four preparatory pulses, then the rhythm.
Initiation into mysteries, or instruction preparatory to this; the practices or teachings of a mystagogue. Archive 2007-07-01
Its sophistication is superbly captured by preparatory drawings. Times, Sunday Times
He considers it indeed "highly probable that the preparatory sign of a new spot is always a small, bright patch of facula. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
I here use the word initiation because I have no doubt that Virgil had in his mind when writing it the Greek idea of initiation into mysteries preparatory to a new life. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Huron tract, was already cleared out, the full width of sixty-six feet, preparatory to its being turnpiked. Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)
Bankers expect the sale to begin in September or October because of the large amount of preparatory work. Times, Sunday Times
At the ceremony speakers referred to the importance and significance of inaugurating the preparatory committee.
The preparatory certificate is the minimum qualification required to teach English in most language schools.
A painter's preparatory sketches and drawings are his work in progress on the way to the ultimate creation.
Great difficulties ensued, since no preparatory work of any kind had been done either by the delegations of the countries or by the respective governments. Refugees in the Age of Total War
Everything else in the show can be understood as preparatory work for this treatise. Times, Sunday Times
Yet whereas young Jewish men had been permitted to attend college preparatory high schools (gymnasia) and universities since the early nineteenth century, Jewish women had been excluded from both institutions until the end of the century. Germany: 1750-1945.
After seven preparatory years and legions of cautionary tales, you'd have to say we were braced for it.
It is proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
This may also indicate preparatory drill in reading skills and the handling of information sources. 2. Overall aims and objectives.
High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
I should also mention an exchange in which counsel representing another defendant asked the Judge, ‘Is Your Honour going to set a date for a preparatory hearing in the New Year?’
A new head teacher has taken over at an independent preparatory school in Ilkley.
This metaphor invites us to see an analogy between one's training in Stoic ethics as preparatory for living the philosophic life and someone's training in athletics as preparatory for entering the contest in the arena.
I was soon sent to school -- that preparatory world, where the great primal principles of human nature, in the aggression of the strong and the meanness of the weak, constitute the earliest lesson of importance that we are taught; and where the forced _primitiae_ of that less universal knowledge which is useless to the many who in after life, neglect, and bitter to the few who improve it, are the first motives for which our minds are to be broken to terror, and our hearts initiated into tears. Falkland, Complete
There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
He had 'girdled' the trees for an acre or two around, preparatory to clearing The Crayon Papers
Collections of this kind were to serve as a promptuary or preparatory store essential for speakers and writers.
Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter.
These bobbins are transferred to a machine called a spooler where the yarn is re-wound on a spool preparatory to making the warp. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.
Volunteers are required to carry out the preparatory work.
But the word yawn is not found in Love's dictionary, and consequently the unlucky husband was forced to rise from his bed preparatory to going forth to perform deeds of valor in obedience to the commands of his mistress. The Home in the Valley
Probably the Easter holidays of his last year at his preparatory school. Richard Temple
But the preparatory drawings of individual members of the family remain. Times, Sunday Times
The ground-breaking preparatory work behind the new test took the researchers eight months to complete. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
The sober and reasonable man will also be aware of the background to the unlawful act which includes preparatory acts done by the accused as this sets the act in context for the purpose of determining its objective dangerousness.
It has an endowment from impropriated tithes and is still a useful institution, chiefly preparatory for the College.
Mr. Stuart now turned his attention to crossing the interior, and, with the assistance of his friends Messrs. Chambers and Finke, he was enabled to make two preparatory expeditions in the vicinity of Lake Torrens — from April 2nd to July 3rd, 1859, and from The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
If the images are to be believed the kind of guys slapping it on are bestubbled boxers in Wayne Rooney-style beanie hats, guys who wear visors and helmets, possibly preparatory to an important moon mission or some welding, and chaps jumping off tenement fire escapes after, one supposes, a bracing bout of unarmed combat with a cadre of desperate gangsters. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
Some preparatory reflexology, which was four weeks in length for James, was then followed with a twelve weeks phase to align and balance the auric field.
Officials had already paid 16,000 to the artist and construction firms for preparatory work. Times, Sunday Times
All those involved have undertaken intensive preparatory training.
A like-for-like, three-year comparison between preparatory and state schools is not possible.
The delays have been caused by the complex preparatory work being undertaken at the site.
They contacted the preparatory school 's headmaster last year to return a jacket sent by the teacher to their son as a present. Times, Sunday Times
With the conference at last on the calendar, the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions.
Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.
For the movement Right Face, the preparatory command is "Right....", followed by the execution command "Face."
Students can choose to spend the second three years either in a preparatory program or in vocational training.
Bureau Veritas has been a key partner in the development of many of the Preparatory Studies.
Meanwhile, delegates also decided that a third preparatory committee meeting would be necessary because of the slow progress in drafting the declaration and programme of action.
They pay all the expenses of the project with their own money coming from the sale of preparatory drawings, collages, scale models, all created before the completion of a project.
The space-bar did its duty by the electric connections & steam & separated the two words preparatory to the reception of the space. Mark Twain: A Biography
After a few preparatory drawings, she completed the portrait in one session.
They are following a proven protocol known as the campout to spend the night in the Quest airlock to lessen the preparatory time before beginning the spacewalk scheduled for 12: 45 p.m. SpaceRef Top Stories
First of all, please allow me, on behalf of the Chinese delegation, to extend to you our sincere congratulations on your assumption of the Presidency of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee.
This is the first show of the great sculptor's preparatory drawings to be staged in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
You can therefore picture the flurry of preparatory activities, as we feverishly draw up To Do lists, and audit our entire wardrobes for suitable all-weather clothing.
All decent human work partakes (let us thank the great reasonablenesses of real things!) of the quality of play: if it did not it would be bad or ever on the verge of badness; and if ever human activity attains to fullest fruitfulness, it will be (every experience of our own best work shows it) when the distinction of _work_ and of _play_ will cease to have a meaning, play remaining only as the preparatory work of the child, as the strength-repairing, balance-adjusting work of the adult. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life
A host of cinematograph operators and photographers aimed their machines at this box preparatory to the exit of the bull. Times, Sunday Times
The drawings comprise preparatory sketches and finished sheets.
The mixed independent preparatory day school is building four new classrooms and a specialist support classroom.
A preparatory public consultation paper will be issued this autumn and a more fundamental public discussion paper will be distributed next spring.
However, CELs show more unity and stereotype, whereas AESs more diversity and individuality in the choice of query preparatory patterns.
But this is a tedious digression to make, while Arthur and the baronet are putting on their Sunday "togs" and brushing up their Sunday "tiles" preparatory to going down to meet the 9.40 train from London. The Master of the Shell
Great difficulties ensued, since no preparatory work of any kind had been done either by the delegations of the countries or by the respective governments. Refugees in the Age of Total War
Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, etudes, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
Many artists have grown accustomed to the benefits of preparatory staffs' knowledge and handiwork.
There, induing their uniforms, and training their horses, all of which were yet to be shod, they brushed about the country, and skirmished with guerrillas, until going into camp for thorough drill preparatory to active service. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, études, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
Be sure that news reporters and your attorneys have unfettered access to these training sessions, including preparatory meetings.
Only a few preparatory drawings are thought to have survived. The Times Literary Supplement
I should also mention an exchange in which counsel representing another defendant asked the Judge, ‘Is Your Honour going to set a date for a preparatory hearing in the New Year?’
China was on the preparatory committee that later drafted the charter of the International Trade Organization. Remarks At Signing Of China Pntr
There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
Hold your tongue!" cried Drake, and he lighted another cigarette preparatory to fixing his whole attention on the paradox that Mike was about to enounce. Mike Fletcher A Novel
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Aged six, he was sent to England to board at Ovingdean preparatory school in Sussex, spending holidays with his grandparents.
Since it was thought thus that novel disseisin predated mort d'ancestor, novel disseisin appeared as a preliminary undermining of feudal power by protecting knightly possession of their property rights, preparatory to the introduction of mort d'ancestor and the possessory protection of inheritance rights. Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!
The referee did not even bother with a preparatory yellow card and the lad was trotting towards the dressing room.
Bankers expect the sale to begin in September or October because of the large amount of preparatory work. Times, Sunday Times
STRANGER: The arts of washing and mending, and the other preparatory arts which belong to the causal class, and form a division of the great art of adornment, may be all comprehended under what we call the fuller’s art. The Statesman
Great difficulties ensued, since no preparatory work of any kind had been done either by the delegations of the countries or by the respective governments. Refugees in the Age of Total War
The place where these two forces met was in the preparatory schools that the students attended for two years before going overseas. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
The drawings and watercolors on exhibit vary from preparatory sketches to finished drawings depicting views in Delft that are still recognizable today.
Agriculture and economic policy have their own special preparatory committees.
They have eliminated the general track and replaced low-level academic courses with ones that teach college-preparatory content in new ways.
If you have a limited budget, you can do some preparatory groundwork yourself to cut costs.
Excisio recti (Excision of the rectum) preparatory excision of the coccyx was introduced, which had been initiated by Kraske, and Kocher took this step further and also removed a piece of the sacrum (1874). Theodor Kocher - Biography
Legislator Edmund Ho Hau-wah's election was rubber-stamped by the Preparatory Committee of the Macau SAR chaired by Vice-Premier Qian Qichen.
There he attended a preparatory school for the novitiate.
At least a year's preparatory work will be necessary before building can start.
_ IV, ii, 35, where the Constable of France orders the trumpets to 'sound the tucket-sonance, and the note to mount,' which fits in with Markham's definition, for the passage appears to recognise the tucket as in some sort a _preparatory_ signal. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
At least a year's preparatory work will be necessary before building can start.
I was one of a dying breed of officers who had effectively been in dark blue uniform since leaving preparatory school at the age of thirteen. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
But people change, especially once they leave a rather sheltered preparatory school and enter university. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, a well-trained artist does not need a life model or a preparatory sketch to represent a particular subject.
The preparatory certificate is the minimum qualification required to teach English in most language schools.
Johnston is already on site carrying out preparatory works and construction will begin immediately.
They have eliminated the general track and replaced low-level academic courses with ones that teach college-preparatory content in new ways.
From an attention to the gospel history, we are induced to believe that the celebration of that ordinance constituted a part of the common duties of every Lord's day, while the apostles ministered in the Christian church; + and that an attendance at the sacramental table, was not distinguished by any special preparatory exercises, diverse from those which anteceded other sanctuary duties. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
As a result, a well-trained artist does not need a life model or a preparatory sketch to represent a particular subject.
But in the meantime preparatory work could begin. Times, Sunday Times
At least a year's preparatory work will be necessary before building can start.
It would seem that Mrs Gaskell began A Dark Night's Work with a vivid donnée - the preparatory excavations for the railways churning up the beautiful English landscape, and discovering a murdered body.
The heavily indebted Spanish company said that preparatory work had begun and that it expected to maintain a majority shareholding in O2. Times, Sunday Times
I have pointed to my own manuscript volumes, which represent the toil of years preparatory to a work not yet accomplished. Middlemarch
At least a year's preparatory work will be necessary before building can start.
The cost of throwing silks preparatory to dyeing also varies, the average being 55 cents a pound for organzine or warp, and 33 cents a pound for tram and filling. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
Marva Collins is an American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
The group is considering opening further sites, including preparatory and international schools. Times, Sunday Times
The preparatory committee has been overwhelmed by the interest shown by exhibitors.
They have eliminated the general track and replaced low-level academic courses with ones that teach college-preparatory content in new ways.
The gentle hunger, the fresh rite, the sensation, the facticity of tabletop dining are all captured with both precision and painterliness through a photographic preparatory stage.
Riley's gouaches are much more than just preparatory sketches for the oils (which are painted by assistants, as has long been Riley's practice).
Why was such an incredible sum of money spent for all the vain and useless pomp which accompanied the sister of the mikado on her journey to Yedo, preparatory to her marriage with the tycoon? Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
A host of cinematograph operators and photographers aimed their machines at this box preparatory to the exit of the bull. Times, Sunday Times
Singapore's 30-strong sailing contingent are contesting 11 out of 14 classes at the Asian regatta, which is also serving as a preparatory meet ahead of the 2010 Asian Games, to be held in Guangzhou from Nov 12 to 27. TODAYonline
My 10-year-old son attends a good preparatory school. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, a 2.0 average allows the student to enter college preparatory courses and access extramural activities such as sports.
Pragmatic John W Henry sees grounds for sharingThe £37m Tom Hicks and George Gillett borrowed from RBS for preparatory work on a Stanley Park stadium hangs like a millstone around Liverpool, and it could force the Reds into a groundshare with Everton. John W Henry and Liverpool keep quiet about £45m loan deals
Officials had already paid 16,000 to the artist and construction firms for preparatory work. Times, Sunday Times
High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
During induction and the preparatory phase, radiant heat lamps are used to maintain the neonate's temperature and prevent chilling.
Although almost no preparatory studies for the painting have survived, there is every reason to believe that many were made.
The preparatory certificate is the minimum qualification required to teach English in most language schools.
This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion.
The Rugby house, which had from 1850 the English novitiate, became in 1886 a juniorate, or preparatory school for novices. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
In the lesser Mysteries [24] the candidate took an oath of secrecy, which was administered to him by the mystagogue, and then received a preparatory instruction, [25] which enabled him afterwards to understand the developments of the higher and subsequent division. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
After a few preparatory drawings, she completed the portrait in one session.
I found her already stripped to a gantline though, preparatory to a long stay in port. Voyage of the Liberdade
He was speaking during the preliminary preparatory meeting for the official launch of the project on May 13.
But in the meantime preparatory work could begin. Times, Sunday Times
Along with a selection of major sculptures and maquettes, the show contains rarely exhibited preparatory drawings and sketchbooks loaned by the Miro Foundation in Mallorca.
The contractor can, on the basis of the letter of intent, commence the preliminary preparatory work.
Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.
Seminary education was divided into four segments, initial preparatory school being the only one which offered some Slavonic.
You should pack it up preparatory to sending it by post.
The preparatory certificate is the minimum qualification required to teach English in most language schools.
It gave preparatory study to projects which would later be debated by the Duma and State Council.
The first session of the preparatory conference was convened by New Zealand, the depositary of the convention, at Christchurch, New Zealand from April 23 to April 28, 2001.
Mitotic spindles in the quadrant founder cells are skewed clockwise, preparatory to dexiotropic division. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Children's education goes through primary, preparatory, and secondary stages.
The preparatory school caters for girls and boys aged three to 11 after which pupils move up to the senior school.
But assistant director of environment, development and transportation, Ken Glew, said preparatory work was progressing.
The administration is not serious in carrying out the preparatory work needed for the enforcement of the bylaw.
But people change, especially once they leave a rather sheltered preparatory school and enter university. Times, Sunday Times
Smith," said Handy, "you take the cake," removing the briarwood from his mouth to knock the ashes from the bowl preparatory to loading up for A Pirate of Parts
This is the first show of the great sculptor's preparatory drawings to be staged in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
While I did relish the opportunity to wear a super cute new dress, our preparatory cocktail of peach schnapps and Valium did not serve me well.
Some of them are preparatory drawings for bigger works, such as finished oil paintings that may be hanging in a museum somewhere. Times, Sunday Times
This is the first show of the great sculptor's preparatory drawings to be staged in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
Their success has also stiffened the resolve of the many preparatory schools who oppose the curriculum. Times, Sunday Times
It was only in 1879 that Klebs and myself, after having been thoroughly freed, by a long series of preparatory studies, from the unfortunate paludal idea, undertook together some investigations in malarious districts of the most varied character, marshy and not marshy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
All that remains of the paintings are the preparatory sketches and photographs of poor quality.
She did preparatory research for the committee's work and took part in the process of discussing and drafting the proposed law that this paper analyses.
Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.
The Boers charged the hill four times, and were inspanning wagons preparatory to a retreat, when our men were forced to fall back owing to their reserve.
Both were sent to preparatory schools. Times, Sunday Times
The regional preparatory meetings over the years revealed a fundamental rift in the alliance.
There was no preparatory drawing; each brushmark inspired the next. Times, Sunday Times
It was due for completion by May 2005 but so far only preparatory work has been carried out and no hearings have taken place.
The college preparatory program readies students for university study.
With the conference at last on the calendar, the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions.
Magistrate Jacqueline Pratt said she was acting within the law in clearing the court, adding that "this procedure is called a curtailed preparatory examination and becomes a direct indictment of the accused person. ANC Daily News Briefing
Her two boats worked inshore as beach survey teams carried out preparatory work, including plotting the gradient profile of beaches earmarked for landings as well as mapping river inlets and neighbouring paths.
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