Example sentences of "be [vb pp] alive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A frog can be boiled alive in water that is brought to boil slowly . ) |
| 2 | We are to be buried alive under charters . |
| 3 | If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist . |
| 4 | Earthworms can also be stored alive in damp leaf mould placed in an icecream tub which has had small holes punched in the lid . |
| 5 | Terrified of choking and terrified that the rope would give way , that she would fall and be eaten alive by those metal teeth , she screwed her eyes tight and prayed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 8 | Brückner could n't be left alive with that knowledge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Is it compassionate for a person to be kept alive with tubes going into their stomach ? |
| 11 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even with supplementary feeding , only a few dolphins can be kept alive in such small reserves , which may not be enough to maintain an adequate gene pool . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'll be kept alive until then . |