Example sentences of "was willing [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nietzsche , in particular , was not — but , unlike most of Wagner 's admirers , he was willing to take the master 's prose voice sufficiently seriously to contemplate positive action on its behalf . |
| 2 | This condition should not pose too much of a problem , since the minister responsible , Luigi Covatta , stated publicly on a visit to Venice at the end of January that he was willing to return the materials still stored in Rome . |
| 3 | Although the name of the sponsor has not yet officially been announced , it is assumed to be Olivetti who , when the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel was first mooted , let it be known that it was willing to underwrite the restoration of the ‘ Trinity ’ , Masaccio 's other great fresco painting . |
| 4 | This was an act of the most palpable commonsense , for John Reith , the Manager , was willing to give the cloak of independence to everything that the Government wanted . |
| 5 | Crucially , it was within 100 miles ( 160km ) of London and the owner , Pauline Flick , was willing to allow the programme to proceed , and to occupy the hut on the site . |
| 6 | She knew that Simone did n't care much for Jonathan and she was willing to leave the subject alone . |
| 7 | Although Nizan himself was willing to accept the Moscow version of events , it is probable that the highly publicised nature of the trials , the seemingly endless ramifications of the anti-state activities exposed , did little to boost his confidence in the future development of the Soviet state itself . |
| 8 | Mr Edward Fenech Adami , the Maltese Prime Minister , said his country was willing to accept the Lockerbie suspects . |
| 9 | Harald , challenged by rival kin , was willing to become the Franks ' client . |
| 10 | We could have gotten the hostages out any damn time we wanted to [ Coleman insists ] , but nobody was willing to rock the boat with a rescue operation . |
| 11 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 12 | Thus in D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 the court was willing to permit the NSPCC to withhold the name of their informant but in British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 the defendants were ordered to disclose the name of the plaintiff 's employee who had supplied them with confidential information belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But Turkey was willing to pay the price [ the US arms embargo ] when it intervened in Cyprus in 1974 . |
| 15 | After all , the work was done , and anyone could take Famagusta now who was willing to pay the price in lives from both sides . |
| 16 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 17 | The supply of coal seemed so vast that no one was willing to concede the possibility of exhaustion in the near future , and in the twentieth century oil began to offer a new source of energy that the scientists and engineers of Jevons ' time had not anticipated . |
| 18 | That is to say no French government and probably no French political party at this time was willing to concede the principle of secession ; and the permanent loss of Indochina would obviously have made it harder to hold on to French North Africa and even to Black Africa . |
| 19 | It does not make particularly amusing reading , and at first glance it may seem odd that Eliot was willing to enter the spirit of such occasions . |
| 20 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |