Example sentences of "['s] death and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Henry VIII 's death and the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI his subjects hoped for some relaxation of the Forest law . |
| 2 | SET IN ‘ A COUNTRY that is probably Chile , ’ Ariel Dorfman 's Death And The Maiden asks how a new democracy should treat its totalitarian past . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle 's death and the sale of the property . |
| 4 | Jane Moss said yesterday that the double heartbreak of her daughter 's death and the murder of her own mum 11 years ago made her want to care for the needy . |
| 5 | Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours . |
| 6 | perhaps the clinching argument for Philip , however , was that he was already in possession : he had been appointed as Regent at Charles IV 's death and the royal administration was full of Valois clients . |
| 7 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 8 | But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place . |
| 9 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 10 | On his father 's death and the succession of Macbeth [ q.v . ] , |
| 11 | This was challenged by his brother , however , and reversed by the lord keeper , Francis North , first Baron Guilford [ q.v. ] , and the case continued after Henry 's death and the succession to the dukedom of Charles 's nephew , Henry [ q.v. ] , being finally resolved in Charles 's favour in the House of Lords in June 1685 . |
| 12 | The Grail and Excalibur were seen centuries after Arthur 's death and the monks who reinterred his body here would scarcely bury such sacred relics . ’ |
| 13 | There was also something soft and subdued and beautiful between the hour of the sun 's death and the hour of darkness . |
| 14 | Following Wortley 's death and the wounding of two Australians , the Australian government on Jan. 24 advised the 1,000 Australian citizens living on Bougainville to leave the island immediately . |