Example sentences of "not prepared [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had enough of black guys who 're not prepared to listen . |
| 2 | We are not prepared to listen to lectures on human rights from people who have such a callous attitude to human life . |
| 3 | They 're not prepared to listen to reason . |
| 4 | " I 'm not prepared to countersign this report as it stands . |
| 5 | It can not justify increased expenditure on the scale that it proposes , and we are not prepared to renegotiate in any way the present rebate to the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Hopes that the committee 's decision might force better terms from the USA were disappointed when US President Bush said that the US side was not prepared to renegotiate . |
| 7 | The Chinese , UK and Hong Kong governments all subsequently indicated that they were not prepared to renegotiate the agreement . |
| 8 | Yeah , that 's right , what , no , he 's not saying erm , he 's not prepared to negotiate any more |
| 9 | The unions were not Prepared to Support any form of " direct action " , despite the resolutions carried at earlier Congresses in favour of the use of strikes for Political ends . |
| 10 | When Britain joined under John Major as Chancellor , the Bundesbank thought the level was too high and was not prepared to support sterling when it came under pressure from speculators , he added . |
| 11 | Do you think there 's a danger that the West could undermine Gorbachev 's position particularly with the delicate situation over Lithuania , if it 's not prepared to support moves to try and get tension reduced between the two blocks ? |
| 12 | In doing this Jesus pinpointed the one thing in his life which he was not prepared to renounce to follow him . |
| 13 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | What sort of misguided speech was that ? were they dance about it or trim here , what they 're saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today , is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected . |
| 15 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |
| 16 | The real prize , the main surviving government stronghold north of Stirling , was Fort William on the west coast , which Cumberland was not prepared to lose . |
| 17 | The reason for not accepting what people call the social chapter , which is in reality the imposition of labour laws that would damage our competitiveness , is that we intend to keep our competitiveness and we are not prepared to lose our competitiveness against Japan and the United States , even though that is the express policy of the Labour party . |
| 18 | My Lords , Government is not prepared to retain the land itself for the future development of what must be regarded as one of the world 's greatest libraries . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I am not prepared to wait for the trial . |
| 20 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 21 | I 'm not prepared to wait . |
| 22 | The citizens of Berwick were not prepared to wait and see . |
| 23 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 24 | The scientists , however , are not prepared to wait … |
| 25 | It may still come , but we are not prepared to wait indefinitely . |
| 26 | The trouble is their sons do n't want to know ; they 're not prepared to live that sort of life but they ca n't find other work . |
| 27 | Sara had said that she just was not prepared to live any longer in the jerry-built little terrace at the bottom of the village . |
| 28 | But the Government is not prepared to allow this to happen . |
| 29 | Politically , Britain was not prepared to allow WEU to intrude upon Anglo-American relationships , and placed it a poor second to NATO . |
| 30 | But many companies are not prepared to allow the necessary time , despite the fact that without the language in some countries it is impossible to operate . |