Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There does not , however , appear to be recorded significant rise in core body temperature during moderate weight training . |
| 2 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 3 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 4 | We want to be left alone . |
| 5 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 6 | Subordinates want to be left alone while their superiors want no surprises . |
| 7 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 8 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 9 | " I want to be left alone . |
| 10 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 11 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 12 | Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese . |
| 13 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 14 | They want to be proved right . |
| 15 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 16 | The maintenance of this repertoire is made more difficult , in that the majority of children in Roman Catholic schools seem to be taught contemporary hymns and other religious music by religious education teachers , rather than by the music staff . |
| 17 | But they seem happy to attribute orderliness and completeness to others , and indeed seem to be made happy by doing so . |
| 18 | Some men seem to be born blind . " |
| 19 | Bronze statuettes , often very fine , continue to be cast solid , and these are o–ten very bold and free in pose and structure . |
| 20 | Ten years later a state of emergency is still in force , renewed in May 1991 for a further three years , and political detainees held incommunicado under emergency provisions continue to be denied basic protection against torture . |
| 21 | With questions on behaviour such as magazines read or television programmes watched the previous week , the open question produces lists that tend to be abbreviated due to forgetfulness . |
| 22 | In sub-Saharan Africa , where land hunger is more rare , women tend to be left alone to cultivate and market their produce . |
| 23 | When his failing health caused his Harvard stay to be cut short , Dawson retired to Budleigh Salterton , Devon , where he died 25 May 1970 . |
| 24 | This being found somewhat lukewarm , somewhat unsatisfying and unsatisfactory , the formulation was amended and became : that Bert and Jasper were empowered by those present to offer support to the Irish revolutionaries , and ask to be given concrete tasks . |
| 25 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 26 | It may be that greater financial resources require to be made available in order to increase public awareness of the National Library and its functions by increased advertising and other publicity means . |
| 27 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 30 | Many people wish to be left alone to get on with their own lives and they must be allowed to do so , and there must also be opportunities for different degrees and different kinds of involvement . |