Example sentences of "to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , local authorities have no powers to reimburse burial costs where a third party has already arranged a funeral ( but see ( b ) below in relation to deaths occurring in hospitals ) . |
| 2 | ‘ … Dr Hamdy 's report did not refer to deaths from jaundiced livers and kidneys . ’ |
| 3 | The most spectacular change in mortality rates over the past 150 years has related to deaths within the first year of life — the infant mortality rate . |
| 4 | The classifications of maternal causes of death in the eight and ninth revisions are practically identical , since causes B40 from the earlier 1965 revision and AM42 from the next ( 1975 ) revision both refer to deaths from abortion , and cause B41 from the next ( 1975 ) revision both refer to deaths from abortion , and cause B41 from the earlier revision was only divided into two parts AM43 and AM44 in the later revision . |
| 5 | The classifications of maternal causes of death in the eight and ninth revisions are practically identical , since causes B40 from the earlier 1965 revision and AM42 from the next ( 1975 ) revision both refer to deaths from abortion , and cause B41 from the next ( 1975 ) revision both refer to deaths from abortion , and cause B41 from the earlier revision was only divided into two parts AM43 and AM44 in the later revision . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Dr William McCord has pleaded for a rethink of plans to close the South Tyrone maternity unit , claiming it will lead to deaths . |
| 7 | Erm , ratio of injuries to deaths er for all accidents as a function of age and sex , and again , you can see males have , males do a lot worse than females and I think there 's one more , no sorry that 's the lot . |
| 8 | Ratio of injuries to deaths for all accidents as a function of age and sex . |
| 9 | the r reactions on Halcyon , of those reactions thirteen hundred , there were thirteen hundred relate to deaths of the users , and that 's just too high a price to pay . |
| 10 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 11 | And pro tabacco company groups question Research fund 's figures claiming they do n't take account of other factors contributing to deaths . |
| 12 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 13 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 14 | They were tried , convicted of treason and sentenced to death , later commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 15 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 16 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 17 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 18 | When Roger Collins was sentenced to death aged 18 he had no idea what would happen next . |
| 19 | Her father was sentenced to death . |
| 20 | And fit his mind to death , for his soul 's rest . |
| 21 | When the history of our times comes to be written , They Organized Themselves to Death will be the only possible epitaph . |
| 22 | I know the money 's not brilliant but it 's better than freezing to death on a state pension . ’ |
| 23 | Doing anything more led to agony , sleepless nights , months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death . |
| 24 | They 'll starve us all to death ! ’ |
| 25 | They left her , left her to drag herself bleeding to death … she did not die . |
| 26 | ‘ How your mob have murdered a teacher , and thrashed the Duke 's servants nearly to death . |
| 27 | The conclusion suggests how religious and secular attitudes to death might be unified in a manner that could support pastoral involvement in hospice and hospital work . |
| 28 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 29 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 30 | Israeli troops killed four Palestinians yesterday and a fifth was beaten to death by fellow Arabs for alleged collaboration with Israel , Reuter reports . |