Even at the larger stations, as late as the early 1880s, the authorities remained ill-prepared to receive a ship-load of disease contacts.
Moreover, teachers can themselves be unaware of differences or feel ill-prepared to address them with students.
I was ill-prepared for the excitement of opening the innings in fading light.
It also meant that many 'experts' were to be ill-prepared for the eventual disintegration of the state.
However, we will do ourselves no favours by rushing into hasty and ill-prepared responses.
They were ill-prepared for the journey and experienced considerable problems in securing food at various farms and villages at which they stopped en route.
We were ill-prepared for that.
But the problem has been illthought out, the scheme ill-prepared and the legislation ill-digested.