Example sentences of "die [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Isabel , her sudden hope dying as the inevitable consequences of this course of action sprang to mind . |
| 2 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 3 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 4 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 5 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
| 6 | Each year five million children die from the lethal effects of diarrhoea , four million from respiratory diseases like T B and bronchitis . |
| 7 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 8 | Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks . |
| 9 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 10 | Central authority has collapsed , and 100,000 people have already died from the combined effects of the fighting and famine . |
| 11 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 12 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 13 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 14 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 15 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 16 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 17 | There was no significant difference in the rate at which AIDS progressed in the two groups ; about 8 per cent in each group had died within the three years . |
| 18 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
| 20 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 21 | Almost all of them will die within a few weeks of being shed . |
| 22 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 23 | We emphasised one particular question : is pneumonia a terminal event for elderly patients who would otherwise die over the succeeding months from underlying , chronic illnesses ? |
| 24 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 25 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 26 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 27 | However , compared with patients aged 18–44 years , patients aged 45–64 ( RR=0.84 ) , 65–74 ( RR=1.28 ) , and 75–92 ( RR=1.99 ) were not significantly more likely to die during the 24 months after discharge ( all p0.2 ) . |
| 28 | What did it matter if fish died after a few weeks ? |
| 29 | In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months . |
| 30 | Whole armies fought and died under the Conventional Rules of Duty . |