Example sentences of "death in [adj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raja James resisted British annexation and on his death in 1868 his title passed to his nephew Charles Johnson , who took the name of Brooke , an active and vigorous administrator of austere though unconventional disposition . |
| 2 | After his death in 1898 his sons Eustace and Cyril continued the business . |
| 3 | Shortly before Sikes 's death in 1803 his hydrometer had been adopted by the government excise department for revenue purposes . |
| 4 | After his death in 1896 his sister Edith became the sub-postmistress for 33 years . |
| 5 | In the south , Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester was Justice of the Forests south of Trent from 1416 until his death in 1447. his successors were all great barons . |
| 6 | Within 150 years of Osman 's death in 1324 his successors had overrun what remained of the Byzantine empire and had occupied almost all the territory of present-day Yugoslavia which lies south of the Sava-Danube line . |
| 7 | After Tom Luker 's death in 1977 his family gave the Club his putter which is now mounted as a trophy on display in the Club . |
| 8 | His son , Hidetada , was an equally able administrator and politician , and by the time of his death in 1632 his family 's position was unchallenged . |
| 9 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |