Sentence examples for it is preparatory from inspiring English sources

- IT Security Manager "From an oversight perspective...it would be nice to know when somebody [is] accessing a particular data set, that the login includes the nature of that access and whether it is preparatory or whether it is part of a research protocol, and if it is part of a research protocol, some number or some indication of what that protocol is".

The Iraqi document is marked "Draft FFCD Version 3 (20.12.95)," meaning it was preparatory for the "Full, Final, Complete Disclosure" that Iraq made to United Nations inspectors in March 1996.

But, in the past couple of years, I've reread three novels with one unmistakable sentence to which everything else is preparatory and subordinate.

A large part of the process of getting a loan is preparatory; a precursor to the actual application process.

It is understood preparatory work for the investigation has already begun.

It is probably preparatory to offering women other drugs to keep us "happy".

Otherwise, if you work with just the body, it is only preparatory in nature.

Though "towards Osiris," composed in 2005, is a complete piece, as its title suggests, it was a preparatory sketch for Mr. Pintscher's 25-minute "Osiris," commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Symphony, which gave the New York premiere in 2008 under Pierre Boulez.

They were preparatory sketches for a mural in John Maynard Keynes's rooms in King's College, Cambridge.

Some drawings are preparatory studies for paintings, while others are finished products.

Several of the drawings in the exhibition are preparatory sketches of existing or planned artworks.