Example sentences of "death [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Michael ( ‘ Zozimus ’ ) ( c. 1794–1846 ) , balladeer and street entertainer , was born c .1794 to poor parents in Faddle Alley off Black Pitts in the Liberties of Dublin ( and not ten years later as the Memoir by ‘ Gulielmus ’ implies in giving his age at death as forty-three ) . |
| 2 | Therefore I give the cause of death as cerebral haemorrhage . ’ |
| 3 | A pathologist gave the cause of death as toxic poisoning from a combination of Coproximol and alcohol . |
| 4 | Pathologist 's reports established the cause of death as extensive chest injuries . |
| 5 | Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church . |
| 6 | The village priest was arrested and later executed and deportation and death for other villagers also resulted . |
| 7 | Each was aware that the only outcome would be death for one of them . |
| 8 | When looking at the local underbelly of the centre initiative at Powick , it was seen that the provision of more than one psychiatric hospital within a district , after 1982 , meant certain death for one or other institution . |
| 9 | One side of the sheet lists the children of Charles the Cheesemonger , starting with the birth of William Charles in 1772 and appending a few dates of death for good measure . |
| 10 | Road accidents are the major cause of death for 17 to 25 year olds . |
| 11 | It said that Iran had executed 224 people between January and July 1992 , at least 66 of whom had been put to death for political reasons , and that at least 199 members of the minority Baha'i community had been killed during " systematic " persecution of their sect . |
| 12 | No merciful sudden death for that poor romantic young fool , he thought grimly . |
| 13 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 14 | I will be staying put with the President 's mortal remains , and you can be sure I will not be in the shadow of Mrs Aquino , using the death for personal and political reasons . ’ |
| 15 | Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net . |
| 16 | One mistake could mean death for all three of us . |
| 17 | It is death for all mutineers in England . |
| 18 | It is easy to understand Bilbo 's pity but it is still true that Gollum deserved death for all the wrong he did , but Frodo must remember that it would be unfair to Gollum as there are others who also deserve death . |
| 19 | All are believed to have been sentenced to death for criminal offences but a warrant had not been signed for their executions and some were still appealing against their conviction . |
| 20 | I have been prepared for death for many years . ’ |
| 21 | He had been sensing the red death for many days . |
| 22 | When he was roused to such a peak of experience , confronting the issues of life and death for thousands besides himself , all things became simple to him . |
| 23 | Did he arrange his mock death for some secret reason ? |
| 24 | That must have been a horrendous death for some of them |
| 25 | Tesco were the grocery chain and the Green Shield Stamps and it was the kiss of death for Green Shield when they did that . |
| 26 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 27 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 28 | In contrast with our patient , although no material was available either before or after death for histological study , the absence of complete obstruction and the spontaneous resolution suggests that the ureteric obstruction was a result of compression from the pseudocyst . |
| 29 | Dementia was recorded as the cause of death for 22 per cent of cases and mentioned on 57 per cent of certificates . |
| 30 | In contrast lung cancer is a much less important cause of death for older women . |