Sentence examples similar to preparatory to completion from inspiring English sources

For these purposes, and to provide, prior to the completion of the National Gallery of Art, for the protection and care of the works of art in said Gallery and for administrative and operating expenses and equipment preparatory to the opening of the Gallery to the public, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary.

Act Apr. 13, 1939, inserted in last sentence "and to provide, prior to the completion of the National Gallery of Art, for the protection and care of the works of art in said Gallery and for administrative and operating expenses and equipment preparatory to the opening of the Gallery to the public".

Archives|FRANCE TO PROPOSE LEAGUE ARMS STUDY; Wants Inquiry by Experts Preparatory to Drastic Limitation Program.

Both symposia and gymnasia in different ways mirrored or were preparatory to warfare (see below).

FRANCE TO PROPOSE LEAGUE ARMS STUDY; Wants Inquiry by Experts Preparatory to Drastic Limitation Program.

He felt the dog calmly push up against his chest, preparatory to bucking him off.

Virtue should be cultivated through proper upbringing, preparatory to "studies" in the strict sense.

The writer is leafing through a Gazetteer of Scotland preparatory to a trip to that country.

I was talking to the sentries preparatory to changing the guard.

The office may have been created preparatory to a subsequently aborted military expedition to Ireland.

As they made a circuit, preparatory to landing, the Mosquito stalled and crashed from 500 feet.