Example sentences of "willing to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this , we would like to recruit people who are willing to be an ACET-link in their church . |
| 2 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 3 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 4 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 5 | The word here — many talk but few are willing to be quoted — is that Nelson Mandela will be the last to go , and that he is working closely with the government in arranging a timetable for the releases . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 7 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 8 | early adopters — the next 13.5% ; these people are critical in the process , since they tend to be influential , and are the people willing to be influenced by external information ( such as advertising ) . |
| 9 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 10 | However , ‘ not represented ’ must be understood to include ‘ not willing to be represented ’ , as well as ‘ not able to be represented ’ — a qualification without which the very essence of parliamentary representation itself is denied . |
| 11 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 12 | His mother is less than willing to be involved , ignoring him in favour of the in-flight mag — an in-depth article on drainage ditch construction in the Middle East is far more interesting to her than her child 's welfare . |
| 13 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |
| 14 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 15 | As the Iranians quickly discovered , there was always someone willing to be duped . |
| 16 | Out and About : Willing to be Weekley changed |
| 17 | You must be willing to be helped and help others — your experiences will be useful to other group members . |
| 18 | Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs . |
| 19 | Witnesses willing to be paid for their services would parade outside courthouses . |
| 20 | Elaine Winn is willing to be interviewee as reformed smoker on Thursday . |
| 21 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 24 | If a hypnotist is willing to be so deceptive while hypnotising a patient , can he be trusted when the patient is in a trance ? |
| 25 | The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh . |
| 26 | Supposing , then , you have a mother who is willing to be observed with her baby , where do you begin your objective description ? |
| 27 | Whatever happens , Tendulkar is no doubt resting easily at night safe in the knowledge that Geoffrey Boycott has already emerged as a sort of godfather figure , willing to be called on to help at any time , to be party to any photo opportunity that may be at hand . |
| 28 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
| 29 | She seems unwilling to take any lead in furthering the social unity of Britain : while willing to be photographed next to African dictators at Commonwealth summits , she is less happy about having black or brown people in her Royal Household . |
| 30 | GRANDPAPA : genuine old timer , magnificent specimen , long white beard , skull-cap if required , willing to be photographed , interviewed , quoted . |