Sentence examples for was preparatory from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative
- I will conduct some preparatory research before choosing the new restaurant's location.
The gymnasium was the principal school for young boys and was preparatory to further liberal studies in the major nonuniversity institution of higher learning, the academy.
She adds that while the accident occurred during a gap in Ark Royal's Beira Patrol duties, the aircraft carrier was continuing to take part in the operation, and the bombing exercise was "preparatory to deployment".
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.
Such activity, however, can be seen as merely a taming process, preparatory to marriage in the way that military initiation was preparatory to the male world of war and fighting.
The knowledge acquired on the powder system was preparatory to the development of low cost, mechanically robust and highly active TiO2 immobilized systems.
The current pilot study was preparatory to the design of a larger prospective multicenter study assessing the prognostic value of brainstem dysfunction in sedated critically ill patients (ClinicalTrials.gov number: NCT02395861).
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.
Both symposia and gymnasia in different ways mirrored or were preparatory to warfare (see below).
Many of Tuymans' drawings are preparatory works for paintings, or – as a kind of reversal – made after the paintings.
