Example sentences of "parents ' death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , experiencing our parents ' death forces us to face the fact of our own mortality . |
| 2 | Take time to adjust to parents ' death . |
| 3 | There has been an increase in life expectancy , with the result that not only are there more elderly people , but there is also a greater likelihood that children will have left home long before the parents ' death . |
| 4 | This is obvious if we consider societies which have systems of partible inheritance , where resources are divided equally between the surviving children on the parents ' death . |
| 5 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 6 | James had been head shepherd and farm manager since her parents ' death , he had guided the young Iskandara through the pitfalls of estate management , helping her to hire and fire , to plant with trees the slopes that would not take sheep , to deal with poachers on the river , maintain the roads and fences . |
| 7 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 8 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 9 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |