1.   A third preliminary task was to prepare the ground for the recruitment of support workers.

2.   If we are to achieve those in practice, we must first prepare the ground carefully.

3.   In fact, the new sciences are malting such an impact because two simultaneous developments have prepared the ground.

4.   In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.

5.   In other words, he is preparing the ground for a partition of the province.

6.   Jacques Chirac has openly attacked the government and prepared the ground for a single rightwing presidential candidate-himself.

7.   Meanwhile, we are pressing for IMF teams already in Moscow and elsewhere to start preparing the ground.