Example sentences of "[noun] to be alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 2 | She grew up believing that she had no right to be alive , let alone deserved any happiness . |
| 3 | Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’ |
| 4 | She needed Rachel to stay alive , but she needed Phoebe to be alive . |
| 5 | Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive , but to be a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism was very Heaven . |
| 6 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 7 | Shakespeare uses it to make us feel how complex and deeply inward is the knot of life , the knot which , while it remains tied , causes Cleopatra to be alive rather than dead . |