Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle East more than 800 people were hanged , shot by firing squad or stoned to death in 1991 . |
| 2 | But he said : ‘ For the offences involving or linked to theft from cars particularly while committed on bail I feel no other sentence than a custodial one would be appropriate . ’ |
| 3 | In particular Mr Taylor had bloodcurdling tales to relate about the spectres of Roman soldiers killed in violent battles or driven to suicide in the bleak grey Cotswold winters . |
| 4 | Depending on nutritional status , the disease will be eliminated or reduced to dormancy by the body 's defences , to erupt again if the antibody level falls . |
| 5 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 6 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 7 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 8 | Fraser dealt with this problem without difficulty and explained to Law in 1913 that " the importance of getting important speeches in advance is shown in concrete manner by your Wallsend speech on October 29th . |
| 9 | Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision . |
| 10 | After centrifugation , chloroform phases were mixed and evaporated to dryness under nitrogen atmosphere . |
| 11 | The victim was drowned and boiled to death at the same time . |
| 12 | In the heart of the press one or two died of suffocation , and many were ridden down and crushed to death under the horses ' feet . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Eastbourne also quoted a Price Waterhouse survey at some length , and referred to shortfall between what we pay and the fees charged . |
| 14 | It was an Oriental table , donated by her mother who was an actress of the old school and given to lavishness of gesture . |
| 15 | TWO Dutch balloonists who ditched during the Atlantic race were rescued by Navy helicopter and flown to hospital at Truro yesterday . |
| 16 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 17 | Being unable to swim , he had gone under water several times before being rescued and carried to safety by Richard , his brother . |
| 18 | All patients were in hospital and confined to bed for at least 24 hours after ERCP . |
| 19 | The following year , in Paris , Du Camp was ill , and confined to bed in his apartment . |
| 20 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 21 | If applied to water from the reef , most hobby test kits would read zero — except for oxygen . |
| 22 | The ease or otherwise with which test data are interpreted and related to behaviour in the market depends on the type of test . |
| 23 | The offence took place between July 15 — the day Rachel , 23 , was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the common in front of her three-year-old son — and July 24 . |
| 24 | A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills . |
| 25 | AN animal lover went to the woods to feed the foxes — and was beaten and stabbed to death in front of his wife . |
| 26 | A well-thought-out cost breakdown and related coding system will enable costs to be reprocessed through the computer and presented to management in a variety of ways . |
| 27 | Gardiner was convicted and sentenced to life for the killing … and the armed robbery case was not proceeded with . |
| 28 | On February 11 this year , after a two-week trial , Iain was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to detention for life . |
| 29 | They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 . |
| 30 | They were charged with treason and sentenced to death in 1983 , but following international condemnation the sentences were in 1984 commuted to life imprisonment [ see p. 33018 ] . |