Example sentences of "not [adv] ready [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding guests and others on the way to whatever feast are not so ready to listen to distress in the present tense . |
| 2 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 3 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 4 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 5 | You , no point in us getting that , you 're room 's not really ready to get painted yet . |
| 6 | If you take your handbrake off and you 're not quite ready to move off , what happens ? |
| 7 | Harris was not quite ready to capitulate . |
| 8 | This need not be an all-or-nothing decision : a pragmatist might make his conception as openly pragmatic as he dares , disguising only those element — his doctrine of obsolescence , perhaps — that the community is not quite ready to accept . |
| 9 | Jonas handed out the cups of tea and she accepted hers with a tight smile , not yet ready to forgive him his duplicity . |
| 10 | Although the Czech delegation , consisting of the directors and head curators from virtually every major gallery in Bohemia and Moravia , expressed a real desire for a quicker and fuller integration with the wider art world , it soon became apparent that the Czechs are not yet ready to engage fully with their Western counterparts . |
| 11 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps you are not yet ready to use them correctly . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Yeltsin 's statement on May 14th shows that Russia is not yet ready to replace the rouble zone with a more efficient system of individual currencies . |
| 14 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 15 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 16 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 17 | ‘ As for myself I know that I am not yet ready to retire completely . |
| 18 | Paul Reichmann was not yet ready to abandon the ship . |
| 19 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 20 | However , Hezbollah , which maintained a stronghold in the suburbs of southern Beirut , reportedly informed the government that it was not yet ready to make a decision on the security plan . |
| 21 | The German position was supported by Japan 's Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , who told US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady during bilateral talks preceding the formal session that Japan was not yet ready to change its economic policies . |
| 22 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 23 | In the mid-1930s , however , most absolute pacifists were not yet ready to accept the apolitical logic of their beliefs . |
| 24 | If your timing is right , Positive ideas of this kind may well give her hope and encouragement , but they should not be introduced too early in the grieving process , or she may regard them almost as an insult to the depth of her sorrow at a time when she is not yet ready to look to the future . |
| 25 | Then the young man said , ‘ It depends what you mean by bereavements ’ , and went on to describe his conflict about a woman with whom he was in love but not yet ready to marry . |
| 26 | Although the appeals came when Russia was not yet ready to advance , for the second time she went immediately and unhesitatingly to the aid of her allies . |
| 27 | She was not yet ready to commit herself so far . |
| 28 | In all instances it is important for services to offer choice — some people need individual counselling or family work ; others merely want to talk to someone when they get desperate or need practical advice but are not yet ready to contemplate altering their habits . |
| 29 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 30 | Sidorov admitted that it was a great honour to be appointed to the government , but was not yet ready to discuss his policies , as he ‘ needed to assess the situation at the Ministry ’ , although he did hint that changes in the organisation 's structure would be required . |