Example sentences of "willing [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbe-Grillet showed himself to be willing to embrace this psychological/subjectivist mode of analysis as readily as he had previously accepted Roland Barthes 's imprimatur as the model chosiste . |
| 2 | But while the G60 engine is electronically strangled at 6200rpm , the Calibra 16v is willing to go all the way to 7000rpm . |
| 3 | If we do not oppose him by force then we must be willing to see all that we love and value go under for at least a generation . |
| 4 | The ex-CID officer was more reticent about the perks of the job , more willing to see those offers as the practice in other forces . |
| 5 | Informal investors or ‘ business angels ’ tend to be wealthy individuals ( often successful entrepreneurs ) who are willing to invest some of their personal wealth in small businesses . |
| 6 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 7 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 8 | If such research is indicative of UK research effort in geology as a whole , then the figures suggest that in the early 1970's , the numbers of students entering the field increased substantially , whilst at the same time , the universities were able and willing to support such an increase . |
| 9 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 10 | Apart from being a very expensively-dressed woman , it appears she is willing to risk all to get her own way — never mind her in-laws or the unpleasantness it surrounds the princes with . |
| 11 | Are you willing to risk all they 've given you ? ’ |
| 12 | I must stick with the composers and make it known that I am willing to perform these new works anywhere . |
| 13 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 14 | Acheson would agree to " close and continued consultation on all the parallel interests " of the two powers , but he was not willing to spell this out on paper . |
| 15 | ‘ She says she is willing to work all her days just to keep a little home of her own ’ , yet she also felt ‘ too old for the work . ’ |
| 16 | The syndicate are n't willing to find such money , so the Captain must wait . |
| 17 | Consumers who once stuck to favourite brands most or all of the time are now willing to try any item that catches their eye . |
| 18 | G. Lightheart will place the matter before the Region stating that we are willing to bear some of the cost . |
| 19 | But a leading party member said it would be willing to meet former Northern Ireland minister Peter Bottomley and Labour MP Harry Barnes to discuss the violence here . |
| 20 | I asked him if he would be willing to meet some members of the House , if Lucy and I fixed up some small dinner parties after my resignation . |
| 21 | Why are people so willing to provide all this free information ( the only cost is the communication lines ) ? |
| 22 | China would require trade and economic assistance ; Japanese politicians and capitalists were willing to provide this , as made clear by Yoshida himself . |
| 23 | Among them , Nicholas Calloway of Calloway Editions , Inc. , of New York maintains that he informed the Barnes trustees in late 1990 that his firm would match any price offered to publish a Barnes book , thanks to a major corporation willing to provide several million dollars ' subsidy for the volume . |
| 24 | Not only was Marx willing to accept that historical development might have followed several different lines in different places but it also shows that he was always revising his ideas . |
| 25 | Neither seemed willing to accept that lobbying on behalf of special interests and trading in order to build coalitions in congress are both necessary and entirely legitimate activities in the context of the American pluralist system . |
| 26 | He now informs me that he 's willing to accept that addendum . |
| 27 | But they were undoubtedly a constructive way of bringing labour and capital together to resolve their problems peacefully in an atmosphere of mutual recognition and compromise.For this reason , given that employers and governments were willing to accept that trade unions had a function and that they had come to stay , they appeared to the Labour Department of the Board of Trade as its functions developed in the early years of the twentieth century , to be especially useful in dealing with some of the conflicts between labour and capital in which it increasingly became involved . |
| 28 | But I am willing to accept that ’ . ’ |
| 29 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |
| 30 | However , as responses such as George Gordon 's suggest , there was little indication that university schools of English were willing to accept such an instrumental role and cultural identity simply to serve state policy . " |