Example sentences of "death the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 2 | After he had stabbed a lone sergeant to death the callous murderer kept gory souvenirs of his crime in the glove compartment of his car . |
| 3 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
| 4 | Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin . |
| 5 | Had this been the case of life or death the latter would have happened , ’ said Mrs Countley , who plans to contact Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster about the issue . |
| 6 | It is understood that a few days before his death the young airman shot down a Dornier bomber . |
| 7 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 8 | A MAN 'S ecstasy-related death the first in the district provoked a stark warning from coroner Christopher Johnson yesterday . |
| 9 | Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended . |
| 10 | With his death the close cooperation between these two organisations , initiated by Ayliffe and William McDougall , came to an end . |
| 11 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 12 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 13 | Brezhnev became chairman of the committee that was charged with the preparation of a new draft , and on his death the following year his successor Andropov assumed the same responsibility . |
| 14 | ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body . |
| 15 | The father had died in possession of the earldom of Leicester in England , Beaumont , Brionne and Pontaudemer in Normandy , and the county of Meulan in France , and on his death the elder twin Waleran inherited the Norman and French lands , the younger Robert the English title and honour . |
| 16 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 17 | Tacitus records that just before his death the defeated Calgacus denounced the Romans as ‘ Pillagers of the world … to robbery , butchery and rapine they give the lying name of ‘ government ’ ; they create desolation and call it peace . ’ |
| 18 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 19 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 20 | That controlling function is an attribute of the life force , and when that is withdrawn at death the whole complex biochemical organization falls into decay . |
| 21 | At his death the whole collection , old and modern masters , numbered some 2,500 . |
| 22 | On his death the same year , the king had the elder of János 's sons beheaded and the other , Matthias , imprisoned in Prague by the Bohemian ruler , George Podiebrad . |
| 23 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 24 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 25 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 26 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 27 | After his own death the Daily Sketch made reference to a large three-quarter-length self-portrait which Minton painted this year and which he afterwards destroyed . |
| 28 | After ‘ Nandie 's ’ death the old Guildhall and ‘ Black Hole ’ remained unoccupied and , being found dangerous , were demolished at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | Inspector Ghote Draws a Line is a story ( on the theme of should lines be drawn ; should the thin ends of all wedges be repulsed ? ) in which Ghote is sent to a house in the deep Indian countryside to find out who is threatening with death the old Judge who lives there . |
| 30 | Police launched an investigation into Henry 's death the next morning … they talked to party-goers and tried to trace the supply chain of the drug . |