ill-prepared

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: Barnardo's believes a childhood dominated by institutional care can leave young disabled people ill-prepared for an independent life in the community.

Preposition: for

• life: Barnardo's believes a childhood dominated by institutional care can leave young disabled people ill-prepared for an independent life in the community.
• challenge: Many medical students go on electives ill-prepared for the challenges that will face them in different societies and different health systems.
• arrival: Many communities are ill-prepared for the arrival of asylum seekers and fearful of the impact they may have.

Infinitive complement

• deal: Politics will remain in a state of stasis as long as society feels so ill-prepared to deal with change.
• meet: Once there the services were often ill-prepared to meet their specific needs with limited training and infrequent contact with learning disability professionals.

Modifying Another Word

• often: On top of these regular humbling experiences, clubs are often ill-prepared to cater for our large number of traveling fans.
• so: It all seemed so ill-prepared, a kids ' pleasure trip up the river at last minute, how lame.
• woefully: On Saturday we had silly games, then Mike went on a pub crawl and Steve went on a woefully ill-prepared walk.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Politics will remain in a state of stasis as long as society feels so ill-prepared to deal with change.
• seem: It all seemed so ill-prepared, a kids ' pleasure trip up the river at last minute, how lame.