11.   My task was to prepare the ground for the recruitment of support workers.

12.   Party insiders said the move was to help prepare the ground for him to eventually stand in place of John Hume.

13.   Prepare the ground with leaf-mould and a little bonemeal, and mulch with leaf-mould during a wet spell each summer.

14.   This year you must prepare the ground, sort out family relationships and establish a stronger material and financial base.

15.   ...a political initiative which would prepare the ground for war.

16.   In April and May parliament approved a series of measures intended to prepare the ground for the new economic structure.

17.   The social investigations of the inter-war years and the literature of concern about unemployment and other social problems prepared the ground for wartime legislation.

18.   He had long intended, and prepared the ground for, some landed provision for Charles.

19.   Franco began to prepare the ground, starting with the Falange.

20.   The first Russian parliament was established in a country which had little done to prepare the ground for constitutionalism.