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Examples of preparing

preparing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

I have people that help with preparing my meals, but nobody feeds me.
All these conditions, it is suggested, are conducive to inducing dorsal system function in preparing the response to the gap size.
This may be helpful when preparing a pregnant patient for transition from coumadin to heparin.
Reports and surveys what someone is preparing to say even though the words are never spoken.
More obviously, upper-limb impairment may result in problems preparing and cutting food and delivering it to the mouth.
The e-mail questionnaire was intended to provide the research team with baseline information and as a source for preparing individual-tailored semistructured interviews.
She was a devoted teacher and spent an enormous amount of time and effort preparing laboratory classes and lectures.
They were a critical group in preparing the public mind for war.
Several of the countries have published or are preparing evaluations of their dissemination strategies.
Concomitantly, we see the emergence of professionally oriented armies that are no longer the mass armies of the modern era preparing for total war.
A great deal of this research has concentrated on the practice strategies and individual lessons, which most students undertake in preparing as performers.
To clarify further, home maintenance and housekeeping included preparing meals, laundry, cleaning, childcare, gardening, pet care, home repairs, and paperwork.
There were many girls preparing for the parade in the ladies room.
First, the prediction technology, that is, agents' knowledge about preparing and evaluating forecasts, may simply impose such a restriction upon them.
Therefore, he distorts his likelihood function in preparing his estimates.
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