Example sentences of "[unc] death " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's giving away half the estate er half the house value on the first er death . |
| 2 | And er we will maintain that we 've used the appropriate statistics from the office of population censuses and surveys and the Registrar General 's er and erm our colleagues have made an error is our opinion on er the er death statistics that they 've used in their calculations of the model in our opinion . |
| 3 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 4 | 2,300 inmates of America 's death row . |
| 5 | A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 . |
| 6 | There are over 2,300 inmates on America 's death rows : all have found themselves caught up in the nightmare that is the US capital law system . |
| 7 | The encounters are separated by the riots and the second is followed by Jane 's death . |
| 8 | ‘ We are all culpable in Carlotta 's death , since we agreed to let her stay behind ; we could have ordered her to return . ’ |
| 9 | Thus many of the elements of the familiar Victorian pub were already in place at the time of William IV 's death in 1837 . |
| 10 | One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death . |
| 11 | Bunty 's death — lively , stupefyingly alluring Bunty who had stretched out her bare leg to him and put her fingertips on his lips — annulled by a group of people because a performance must go on ? |
| 12 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 13 | ( The ‘ on decay ’ aspect is significant , encapsulating a cynical view of life , not least in the shattered security resulting from his father 's death . ) |
| 14 | It is curious that he should select such a subject for his essay , drawn from a newspaper announcement of a man 's death . |
| 15 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 16 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 17 | After Diaghilev 's death composers seemed reluctant to create what Edwin Evans said they called ‘ accompaniments to dance ’ , because they ‘ preferred to create the new for the sake of being new ’ . |
| 18 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 19 | Mrs Marmeladov 's death is very like an animal 's , like this mare 's : ‘ Her bloodless , yellow , wasted face dropped back , her mouth opened , her legs straightened convulsively . |
| 20 | The IEE has tried to negotiate with Thomson , offering help with writing and publishing his biography in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Blumlein 's death in June 1992 . |
| 21 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 22 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 23 | The divergence is important , perhaps crucial , because Pound and Eliot , American expatriates of roughly the same generation , in the London of the second decade of this century made common cause and thereafter — despite ever wider ideological disagreements — remained friends , mutually respectful and mutually supporting , until Eliot 's death in 1965 . |
| 24 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 25 | During the latest six-day adjournment — to allow two witnesses to be called from abroad — Mr Ward said he had written to Mr Rowland on 31 January , asking for his help and recounting details of his daughter 's death . |
| 26 | Whatever the outcome , Marcos 's death has opened old wounds . |
| 27 | The Marcoses are widely blamed for Ninoy 's death . |
| 28 | But if Chapman 's death is to provoke any analysis it might be to ask whether the Pythons achieved their original aim of breaking the mould of English television comedy , doing away with the studio applause , the guest star , the musical interlude , even on occasion the punchline . |
| 29 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |
| 30 | BIRMINGHAM 'S infamous and exhausted retail hub , the Bull Ring , just 25 years old , has been placed on architecture 's death row . |