Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] to put the " in BNC.

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1 But when the rebels , crammed into a fiery and heated meeting in Lord's ' hallowed Long Room heard that president Dennis Silk was not prepared to put the full weight of the MCC behind the protest letter , the meeting voted overwhelmingly by 108-3 to force the authorities to call the full meeting .
2 First of all we 're not prepared to put the nine thousand back into the environment committee budget to er to save the cooperative development agency .
3 Suddenly the scale becomes that of a cathedral , and it 's not fanciful to put the spirituality of the place in the same category .
4 They all looked surprised but Helen said firmly , ‘ It 's not fair to put the decision on Sarah .
5 It is not necessary to put the matter in quite those terms to recognise that the British have always preferred using industrial products to getting involved in making them .
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