Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 2 | Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death . |
| 3 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 4 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 5 | True , it 's a waste of natural resources , but a single issue of some daily newspapers is a far greater ecological sacrifice than all the guitars that have ever been put to death on stage . |
| 6 | Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape . |
| 7 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 8 | Most victims have been hung , sometimes publicly and in groups , but many have also been stoned to death , beheaded , or subjected to flogging and amputation before being executed . |
| 9 | The babies have traditionally been clubbed to death . |
| 10 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 11 | Among those who were released , 19 of them serving life sentences , was a prominent lawyer , Pap Cheyassin Secka , who was among those found guilty of complicity in the abortive coup of 1981 and had initially been sentenced to death [ see pp. 31165-66 ; 31684 ; 32957 ] . |
| 12 | The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported on Jan. 14 that a former Soviet diplomat had recently been sentenced to death for passing Soviet defence secrets to the United States . |
| 13 | Tunisian sources revealed on April 5 that Hamzah Abu Zayd , the Palestinian who assassinated Abu Iyad and two other PLO leaders in mid-January [ see pp. 37975-76 ] , had recently been sentenced to death at a Palestinian military tribunal in Yemen . |