1.   The game was good preparation for our match at Torquay next week.

2.   Business training is a good preparation for any career.

3.   Each area of responsibility requires good preparation and hard work in sharing, adjusting and reaching agreed policies and practices.

4.   The tutors contacted felt that the Access students compared favourably to other groups of students and believed that the Access courses were a good preparation for their course.

5.   Preparation, good preparation will help that.

6.   As the shadows deepened, I felt terribly lonely, but it was good preparation, I thought, for being a widow.

7.   All good preparation for the Trocks, one might imagine.

8.   But the senior military official who briefed reporters on the strategy argued that taking part in peacekeeping efforts is good preparation for soldiers.

9.   But to listen to him tell it, a boyhood in Arkansas amounted to pretty good preparation.