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 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 12 | For example , this theory is incapable of accounting for the phenomenon of redundancies : workers surely do not want to be made redundant in order to indulge their desire for longer holidays . |
| 13 | If they do not want to be held responsible for ‘ increasing racial tension ’ on the street , or the shop floor , they had better do x , y , or z . |
| 14 | For the first time in his life Brian did not want to be left alone with Celia . |
| 15 | There seemed to be nothing else nowadays , and in any case Roland did not want to be thought insular . |
| 16 | The probe does not need to be kept moist making it suitable for all types of field work and the fact that there is no glass present makes it ideal for the food and drink pharmaceutical industries . |
| 17 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 18 | Lord Pearson expressed the way in which the courts approach this aspect very clearly in Taylor v O'Connor [ 1971 ] AC 115 at p143 when he said : The fund of damages is not expected to be preserved intact . |
| 19 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 20 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 21 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 22 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 23 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 25 | I remember definite feelings of not wanting to be felt sorry for , very much wanting everything to carry on as normal . |
| 26 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 27 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 28 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 29 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |
| 30 | It is a fact of human personality that the argument which is supported by the greater weight of evidence does not always win the day ; people do not like to be proved wrong . |