Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] death " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ suicide ’ is defined as the doing of a positive act with the intention of ending life , then there would be no question of suicide in the case of patients who refuse treatment , but otherwise do no positive act , merely allowing death to occur . |
| 2 | SO what are the odds on Anne and Tim staying together 'til death do them part , when all the other Royals have failed ? |
| 3 | No one was henceforth to suffer death or mutilation for taking the king 's deer : the penalties were to be limited to amercement , imprisonment or exile . |
| 4 | Insurance does not , of course , only cover death . |
| 5 | One difficulty , however , is that this offence covers a wide range of situations from killings just short of murder to carelessly causing death . |
| 6 | Thus a miner who slipped from the worn and greasy rungs was liable to fall a long way and a dropped tool could clatter its way down to cause death or injury to some fellow below . |
| 7 | Police sources said the shooting had the hallmarks of a ‘ professional execution ’ : a light handgun was used that would only ensure death if used at point-blank range . |
| 8 | His wife taught the remaining pupils , three seventeen-year-olds , and , as if she had only postponed death until her duties were done , she died of a heart attack at the end of July , the day after the last girls left . |
| 9 | Male model Hay , 22 , only escaped death by moving his head at the critical moment . |
| 10 | Under the Act , a patient who 's terminally ill and sustained by mechanical means may sign a directive authorizing the doctor to discontinue treatment and so allow death to take its course . |
| 11 | Unlike many other coral types , mechanical damage does not necessarily mean death for leather corals . |
| 12 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 13 | 2.6 At common law the relatives had no cause of action when they suffered loss in consequence of a tortiously inflicted death . |
| 14 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 15 | A limited postmorten examination performed elsewhere found death due to a myocardial infarct . |
| 16 | They state that when terminally-ill patients who are still able to make decisions , request a doctor 's help to die , such requests for active termination of life by a medical act , which directly and intentionally causes death , may be morally justifiable and should be given serious consideration . |
| 17 | Although it does not survive death , it is closely associated in life with a category of immortal spirits , the lai , which act as spirit familiars to mediums . |
| 18 | Shall we soon abolish death and refer to someone dead as having a life problem ? |
| 19 | Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence . |
| 20 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 21 | A proportion of hypoxaemic children may be so physiologically compromised late in the course of illness that treatment with oxygen will not prevent death . |
| 22 | Given the right crime to answer for , Vologsky might well not fear death itself , but he would certainly fear to continue living . |
| 23 | He expands upon this : ‘ It does not follow from their alleged unawareness of the possibility of death that they do not fear death , and flee it as the greatest of evils ’ ( 1977 : 40 ) . |
| 24 | We did not fear death at all . |
| 25 | I am not upset by people dying because having been there I do not fear death . |
| 26 | In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities . |
| 27 | As St Augustine maintained , man 's original state knew neither evil nor death : God did not create death , which was consequently contrary to the ‘ Laws of Nature ’ . |
| 28 | I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it . |
| 29 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 30 | One does not invite death . |