Example sentences of "is [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trolley accident … new guidelines issued after child is crushed to death . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this is more often than not a complete failure , as the weakest is bullied to death , followed by the next weakest and so on , until only one remains . |
| 3 | To determine how fetal growth is related to death from cardiovascular disease in adult life . |
| 4 | He is sentenced to death but dies in prison . |
| 5 | PECKINPAH 'S LAST masterpiece , with James Coburn gloomily remembering , as he is shot to death , how he betrayed his values by tracking down free spirit Kris Kristofferson . |
| 6 | You 're watching Central News here in the East Midlands , coming up next Police appeal for information after a horse is stabbed to death . |
| 7 | Student teacher is stabbed to death . |
| 8 | Student teacher is stabbed to death . |
| 9 | In Central News tonight : Hostel murder : Man in court after care worker is stabbed to death . |
| 10 | In the legend Tristan is condemned to death by his uncle Mark for having fallen in love with Iseult , but on his way to his death is allowed to pause and pray at a wayside chapel . |
| 11 | It collapses onto the ground , which happens to be a deep pile of manure , and it lies there until it is trampled to death by the other cows which are milling continually around it . |
| 12 | Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts . |
| 13 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 14 | Cosmas is burnt to death in his bed ; Damien killed by a mysterious archer who apparently can pass through thick walls , but there 's no clue to the riddle , no sign of the Templars and not a shred of evidence to indicate where the Grail or Excalibur lie . ’ |
| 15 | Yet more astonishingly we learn that the word of God is made flesh and is one of us and that God himself is tortured to death and that through our suffering and death we can share in God 's suffering and thereby , in some utterly incomprehensible way , in his life . |
| 16 | Holiday hero is savaged to death saving his love |
| 17 | Tourist is beaten to death in Oz |