Example sentences of "people [modal v] be willing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstream people must be willing to take risks based on their best possible estimate of the future . |
| 2 | More people might be willing to adopt animals from shelters if the RSPCA lowered its charges . |
| 3 | erm My ears pricked up when Mr Waterhouse did in fact say , I though he said that it was n't necessarily help in monetary terms , but some of these people might be willing to help in kind , or in sort of helping as people with some voluntary organisations , and I think , if that was what he meant , I think there again that might be very useful , because voluntary organisations are always looking for people to help . |
| 4 | It would be wonderful if after the service people would be willing to invite 2 or 3 Soviets into their homes for lunch . |
| 5 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 6 | Prices satisfying these costs are Pareto-superior to go-it-alone prices or prices for subgroups , so that it would seem people would be willing to pay them , yet in our example it turned out that they are not . |
| 7 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 8 | Most people would be willing to pay such a price to remove the anomalies involving the ability to pay . |
| 9 | I think a lot of people would be willing to do that . |
| 10 | People will be willing to insure ( effectively saving money which they may never get back ) against contingencies which , if they occurred , would entail a drastic reduction in their standard of living . |