Example sentences of "not prepare for " in BNC.

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1 With the Berlin Wall , the most famous barrier of all , falling , the more media-conscious activists among the Soviet Jews already here are warning that Israel is just not prepared for the influx .
2 This time it is not a natural parting of the ways like leaving school that has happened ; rather , an unexpected factor , for example some form of incurable disease or sudden death through illness or accident has occurred , which propels us into a significant loss that we are not prepared for .
3 I never go in changing rooms , because I 'm not prepared for people to say , ‘ Oh , look at her leg ! ’
4 This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it .
5 She was not prepared for , although not surprised by , Miss Bedwelty 's forthright reaction when she saw the animals in the refrigerator factory .
6 Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ?
7 I 'm not prepared for the deafening ‘ bang ’ as the sides of the box collapse and my moment of entry is masked by puthers of ‘ smoke ’ .
8 What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system .
9 The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game .
10 They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences .
11 Originally Jesus probably directed this parable against the Jews who were not prepared for the coming of the Messiah and would not accept him .
12 They were not prepared for the thousands of young people demonstrating on the streets , apparently with Deng 's blessing .
13 I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look .
14 Furthermore , they were not prepared for this by socialisation at school and at home .
15 But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed .
16 I 'm not prepared I 'm not prepared for individuals to get up but if your not if you do n't want to listen to what I 've got to say that 's okay but I do n't I 'm not prepared for people to perhaps to start making personal points about people actual work within the I certainly would n't do it I do n't think it 's it 's a question of .
17 I 'm not prepared I 'm not prepared for individuals to get up but if your not if you do n't want to listen to what I 've got to say that 's okay but I do n't I 'm not prepared for people to perhaps to start making personal points about people actual work within the I certainly would n't do it I do n't think it 's it 's a question of .
18 The brochure said that the Pyramid of the Sun was over sixty metres high , larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt , and the Street of the Dead more than three kilometres long , but even though it contained a plan , as well as photographs , I was still not prepared for the colossal dimensions of the place .
19 He was not prepared for anything so impressive .
20 He was not prepared for what he saw .
21 We are not prepared for it , whereas our competitors are .
22 Interviewed on Dec. 15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An admitted that Cambodian troops , " fighting alone for the first time " , were not prepared for the intensity of the rebel assault .
23 Juliet , I 'm afraid you 're not prepared for this search at all , you do n't know what you 've got into , and I think you ought to call it off right now .
24 She was not prepared for a very similar question being thrown at her .
25 ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said .
26 Parents have to be aware that not absolutely every accident is preventable and if they 're not prepared for their children to run that element of risk then obviously they have the choice of not letting their children go . ’
27 Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
28 The difference , of course , is that the specials are not preparing for a conflict that we hope will never happen .
29 Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had .
30 The point of an anti-fascist alliance was to prevent war , not to prepare for it .
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