Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Arctic , few northern polar taxa are sufficiently differentiated to be called endemic species . |
| 2 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 3 | Yeah only needs to be done white does n't it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be set free ? ’ |
| 5 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 6 | But she had so wanted to be left alone for a while . |
| 7 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) A partial offer must be kept open for at least 21 days ( Rule 31.1 ) whereas an on-Exchange tender offer is only required to be kept open for eight days . |
| 9 | She very obviously wanted to be left alone . |
| 10 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 11 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 12 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 13 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 14 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 15 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 17 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 18 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 19 | It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another . |
| 20 | Information for those who wish to return , for those who may return at some future date , and those who just wish to be kept abreast of developments should be incorporated . |
| 21 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 22 | It still has to be used full screen , or at least with a fixed window size . |
| 23 | The data obtained forms the triangle of a 2,200 by 2,200 matrix ( requiring 4.7Mb disk space ) , and as such required further processing to be rendered comprehensible ( in this case , the application of programs called PATHFINDER and BROWSE ) . |
| 24 | I The seller shall prior to completion of the purchase carry out and complete in a good and workmanlike manner and with good quality materials the following works to the property , namely : J AB the [ wife ] of the seller hereby acknowledges that she has no claim to or interest in the property hereby agreed to be sold adverse to the interest of the buyer and in consideration of the buyer entering into this agreement she hereby agrees that if so required she will join in the [ conveyance ] [ transfer ] [ assignment ] [ lease ] for the purpose of vesting the said property in the buyer free from incumbrances . |
| 25 | In order for most families to benefit from the types of prevention activities described , they probably need to be made available to all families on a voluntary basis , and they probably need to be relatively non-obtrusive and in essence , common . |
| 26 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 27 | The system is now geared to be accessed on-line , typically through a specialist systems house , such as Donovan Data Services ( DDS ) , and the thick weekly two-volume printed reports familiar to all TV buyers and planners for many years are no more . |
| 28 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 29 | Family rules and strategies of obtaining help often need to be made clear . |
| 30 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |