Sentence examples for preparation was not from inspiring English sources

Food preparation was not among them.

"My preparation was not great," Clijsters said.

"My preparation was not the right one for this opponent.

While the mile seemed like a simple proposition (four precise laps around the quarter-mile track), the preparation was not.

We will look at it, watch the game back and talk to the players to see if the preparation was not quite right or whatever".

(By contrast, Mr. Keene said, Mr. Kasparov's preparation was not so rigorous and the members of his entourage are "not nearly as high-ranking -- quite feeble, really").

Carolyn Ellefson, a project manager at Riverside Publishing Company, which creates the test, said that preparation was not necessary, though her viewpoint will certainly not stop the practice.

You occasionally want to say, 'Come on, dude, could you not have worked it out a little bit in your bathroom mirror?' " "Preparation was not necessarily the byword," Stephen Colbert, who appeared at Largo a few times in the late nineties, told me.

Our pre-race preparation wasn't ideal.

"The duck was very good, but the preparation wasn't great.

Whether the amount of preparation wasn't there or he wasn't focused, I don't know.