Example sentences of "may be willing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic may be willing to share an experience with the reader , sometimes only of the circumstances in which a work was seen , as might be included in a personality article ; but on other occasions the critic may give a fuller account of a personal response to a work of art . |
| 2 | Even if the person or family have had little contact with a religious organisation a minister may be willing to visit while the person is dying . |
| 3 | As the issue assumes greater urgency , the Sandinistas may be willing to undercut , or at least put on hold , the FMLN insurgency in El Salvador , sources here suggest . |
| 4 | Both men have been identified as broadly supporting the repatriation policy and Mr Hurd , who again appealed for voluntary agencies , including the United Nations , to end their boycott of the monitoring process , may be willing to expand the delegation . |
| 5 | Sceptics may be willing to concede on bees and lighthouses — and on many other examples hitherto thought to be market failures — but the case of clean air remains awkward . |
| 6 | He may be willing to use his new powers as executive president to brush aside resistance . |
| 7 | So in workouts , too , creditors may be willing to give up their seniority rights . |
| 8 | Transatlantic tourists and suburban groupies may be willing to fork out the £1 cover charge for sporadic glimpses of Michael Caine and Jason Donovan , but grown-ups are kept loyal by cooking that is honest and robust and hardly ever hiccups in spite of turning over almost as many portions as Ramsden 's . |
| 9 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 10 | They may be willing to die for the motherland ; conscription or the threat of sanctions may be required for everyone else . |
| 11 | English Heritage , and some local authorities , may be willing to grant aid for the making of replacement railings . |
| 12 | Building Society or Bank : they may be willing to lend you money for extra security , and to add it to your mortgage . |
| 13 | A soft rubber ball like a squash ball is easy to insert over each cane : your local squash club may be willing to give you discarded punctured balls . |
| 14 | Otherwise , your hospital physiotherapist may be willing to see the specialist with you , for guidance which she can then put into practice herself . |
| 15 | It is far more difficult to approach someone to whom you do not feel at all dose and in many cases the only way to do this is by means of a third person who may be willing to ask them for their opinion of you . |
| 16 | The beneficiaries may be willing to sell the shares to the surviving directors — but they may choose not to do so . |
| 17 | If you are to live in rented accommodation or a hotel while finding somewhere more permanent to live in your new domicile , your employer may be willing to be responsible for those costs . |
| 18 | If not , a local shopkeeper may be willing to help . |
| 19 | Some general practitioners may be willing to offer individual counselling or marital therapy themselves . |
| 20 | MALE dunnocks ( Prunella modularis ) may be willing to share a single female , but they compete intensely for her reproductive favours . |
| 21 | Some children may be willing and glad to talk over beforehand the implications of forming a reconstituted family . |
| 22 | A man who , through choice or redundancy , decides to work from home , may be willing to take on simple cooking and housework so that his wife can return to full-time employment . |
| 23 | Speculation has arisen that the government may be willing to sell a controlling interest in the British Technology Group ( BTG ) to its US rival Research Corporation Technology ( RCT ) . |
| 24 | Failing this , a fit elderly neighbour may be willing to come , either voluntarily or for a small payment , which would be useful to them if they are living on a small pension . |
| 25 | It takes a great deal of time and money to establish a brand which explains why predators may be willing , when purchasing a company with strong brand identification , to pay far more than the stock market valuation of that company . |
| 26 | However , with Mike Hooper currently in fine form at Anfield and £1.3 million signing David James available as a top-class understudy , manager Graeme Souness may be willing to listen to a new offer . |
| 27 | Even if you are not entitled to these rights by law , due to your leaving a scheme within two years , your employer may be willing to return the contributions you have paid . |
| 28 | The engineering employers may be willing to reinstate the contract as a prelude to revising it . |
| 29 | A mobile eye screening unit could help overcome this problem , and fundholding general practitioners may be willing to pay for this service . |
| 30 | B may be willing to cooperate in return for an inducement offered by A . |