Example sentences of "[conj] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ensuing months , his letters , glowing with a convert 's fervour , faithfully reflect the tenets of Schopenhauerian philosophy : the illusoriness of empirical reality , with all its individual phenomena ; and the recognition , behind our illusory world of an ultimate reality that brings no joy , no good , no providence , no ordained meaning , no rational basis to life or to death . |
| 2 | Long term success ( to date or to death ) was achieved in 11 of 13 ( 85% ) patients . |
| 3 | But Lear does not , and we sit and watch helplessly as his not knowing leads to chaos in his kingdom , to madness , and to death . |
| 4 | Many people consider that the failure adequately to protest at the rise of European Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s was a failure of moral duty , whilst others point out that protesting was a highly dangerous business which led to imprisonment , to torture , and to death . |
| 5 | Did it lead , not to life , but to death ? |
| 6 | Neither an intention to cause serious injury nor recklessness as to death should be sufficient on its own , but together they restrict one another , producing a test which both satisfies the criterion of certainty and marks out some heinous but non-intended killings . |
| 7 | The objections would be reduced if awareness of the risk of death was also required : in other words , if the test were the commission of a serious offence of violence plus recklessness as to death . |
| 8 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , which found much of the English law of manslaughter unsupportable , argued that there is a need for a homicide offence beneath murder to encompass those who cause death when reckless as to death or serious injury . |
| 9 | This was due not so much , as now , to divorce or separation ( the former was expensive and rare , though not unheard of , among the labouring poor ; the latter came into legal existence in 1876 ) as to death and desertion . |
| 10 | Obedient as to death a dead thing . |