Example sentences of "be kept alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 6 | I 'll be kept alive until then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Is it compassionate for a person to be kept alive with tubes going into their stomach ? |
| 9 | You are to be kept alive . |
| 10 | You are to be kept alive . ’ |
| 11 | She saw herself wheeled along white corridors , wired up to huge machines that clicked , whirred , and flashed lights : this was her greatest fear , that she might be kept alive artificially by machinery , a mumbling vegetable , after her natural time to die had arrived . |
| 12 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 13 | Some railways have certainly reached senility , but with the right investment and use , Welsh rural railways can , and will , be kept alive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Survivors of serious accidents or genetic handicap at birth could be kept alive , but often for a lifetime of expensive treatment and care . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The tsar still shared Nesselrode 's view that the Turkish regime should be kept alive as long as possible , but he was determined not to be caught napping if the health of the " sick man of Europe " broke down irrevocably . |
| 18 | Bryan Jennett , of Glasgow University 's department of neurosurgery , a specialist in brain injuries , said the advance of medical technology has meant that more and more patients can be kept alive but often only with a poor quality of life . |
| 19 | The memory must be kept alive . |