Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 3 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 4 | If this is true , it is the more important that active approaches and positive attitudes prevail , if enjoyment in books is to be kept alive in the face of more passive forms of entertainment . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it compassionate for a person to be kept alive with tubes going into their stomach ? |
| 6 | You are to be kept alive . |
| 7 | You are to be kept alive . ’ |
| 8 | Cruzan 's parents contended that their daughter would not wish to be kept alive in her present state and argued for the right to end her life . |
| 9 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 10 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 11 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 12 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 13 | He was going to be buried alive ! |
| 14 | We are to be buried alive under charters . |
| 15 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 16 | One of them was sentenced to be burned alive , and the other hanged , punishments dictated , apparently , not by their sexuality as such but their transvestism and use of the dildo — at once , I want to suggest , appropriations of masculinity , inversions of it , and substitutions for it . |
| 17 | Some acts put a man outside it altogether : at a summer assembly in 846 , a man guilty of sodomy with a mare was condemned " by the judgement of the Franks to be burned alive " . |
| 18 | He 'll never allow himself to be taken alive . |
| 19 | Only Fand was attacked ; Ruth guessed she and Adam were to be taken alive . |
| 20 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 21 | The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh . |
| 22 | I do n't want to be roasted alive and eaten by the Gruncher . ’ |