Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] death " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises interesting questions about what actually does happen to such relationships when the third party is no longer there , that is , when the marriage is broken through death or divorce . |
| 2 | He is fifty-three ageing , losing his sight , and should prepare for death . |
| 3 | He feels his faithful services are not valued , and he longs for death . |
| 4 | The view has been accepted that the state which has traditionally been regarded as death in a human being is reached when the brain , including the brain-stem , is destroyed . |
| 5 | Once convinced , however , that no major philosophical change was involved , but merely the identification by reference to more sophisticated criteria of what has always been regarded as death , medical lawyers have increasingly come to accept brain-stem death as the legal description also . |
| 6 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 7 | The most impressive of the remains are the tiny stone coffins on the ruined floor of the chapel which indicate that either the Knights Templars were very small men or that their bones were broken after death and they were buried with their limbs beneath them . |
| 8 | We must understand that hospitals are not designed for death , and yet they have become institutions of death . |
| 9 | Perhaps self-reports of sickness should be substituted for death rates in the RAWP formula . |
| 10 | GUIL : ( Tense , progressively rattled during the whole mime and commentary ) You ! — What do you know about death ? |
| 11 | Under Part I of the 1987 Act damages can be claimed for death or personal injuries and also for loss of , or damage to , property ( including land ) which is : |
| 12 | Jesus asked for the ‘ cup ’ to be taken away from him ; the cup that stands for death : |
| 13 | De Sade said that if one wants to know about death one should look at sexual excitement . |
| 14 | But among adherents of Romanticism , whether Christian or not , the tension was being described differently , as when de Quincey wrote of ‘ the oscillation of horror , alternating between death as an agony and death as a mystery . ’ |
| 15 | It may happen sometimes that the patient may wish to end his life , rather than wait for death . |
| 16 | ROS : ( Cutting his fingernails ) Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death , as does the beard . |
| 17 | Bodies were anointed after death for burial . |
| 18 | She wondered what kind of existence the computer programmed after death . |
| 19 | I had expected the room to smell of death , but on account of Mrs Mortimer — or else her apron — the room was dominated by the smell of roasting . |
| 20 | Gaily was again reminded of death . |
| 21 | It stinks of death ! ’ |
| 22 | A person can insure against death within a specified period , the policy paying nothing if the insured survives . |
| 23 | The motor racing world was stunned because , in a sport that flirts with death , there were many drivers who thought that if it could happen to Clark , it could happen to any of them . |
| 24 | One leg lay slightly askew , broken either when she drowned or by mishandling in death . |
| 25 | The world was ending in death and despair . |
| 26 | Here it 's the condemned man waiting to ‘ go shuffling out of life/just to hide in death a while ’ . |
| 27 | After all , as Pasternak said , we are people who meditate upon death and thereby create new life . ’ |
| 28 | Accordingly they do not have to be rescued from death by a Saviour ; nor from Hell , for they are not judged at death to Hell or Heaven , but sent to ‘ the halls of Mandos ’ , from which they may in time return . |
| 29 | Increased rates of operative delivery are not necessarily bad if genuinely compromised babies are rescued from death and damage . |
| 30 | He already has plans to appear in Death Wish Six and Seven . |