Example sentences of "death was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violent death was no stranger to the Lords of Morval . |
| 2 | Bess Halidon 's eyes were half open , and Joan , to whom death was no new experience , gently closed them . |
| 3 | ‘ Your parents ’ death was no accident , Mikhail . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh knew that his present insouciance in the face of death was no guarantee that the horror had n't touched him . |
| 5 | ‘ So Bowyer 's death was no accident ? ’ |
| 6 | But the death was a ‘ terrible blow ’ , as he said , in the affection and gratitude of a former disciple . |
| 7 | Death was a respecter of persons , and chances of survival were better in the upper and middle-classes than in the working-class . |
| 8 | Gabriel , the messenger of the Annunciation , had been an angel of life and joy ; but the angel of death was a familiar and sombre concept in Christianity , as in Judaism and Islam . |
| 9 | Death was a regular visitor to every home . |
| 10 | The threshold of death was a way of access rather than a barrier between the two parts of the community . |
| 11 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 12 | His early and unexpected death was a cruel setback which left the College floundering in indecision over the choice of a suitable successor . |
| 13 | ‘ To the Indians , death was a very simple thing , for life was just an appetiser . |
| 14 | Practically the only sign of his close encounter with death was a deep indentation on the left side of his head , where doctors operated to remove a life-threatening blood clot . |
| 15 | The Lord 's death was a unique and a once-for-all event . |
| 16 | Poor Jonas ' death was a blessing in disguise , though one could wish it had happened differently . |
| 17 | The cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage . |
| 18 | His death was a great loss . |
| 19 | Her death was a tragedy , but who knows what kind of disaster that marriage would have been if she 'd lived ? |
| 20 | ‘ Sally was dad 's lynch-pin and her death was a great shock , especially coming so close to the loss of my mum . |
| 21 | Though Canary 's death was a mortal blow to the film , the groundwork he had laid carried the project forward . |
| 22 | From the burghers ' point of view , his death was a serious blow , for it forced Louis VI to punish them . |
| 23 | May the Old Bastard discover that Bosch was not exaggerating , that his Triumph of Death was a pastel cartoon compared to the real thing . |
| 24 | Death was a state which obviously inspired fear . |
| 25 | After all , death was a common event in the workhouse , where only the poor and homeless lived . |
| 26 | How inconvenient , I thought , that I should know that death was a suitor I could not seduce , that the choice of date lay only with him . |
| 27 | Trimmler 's death was a sign of failure for him . |
| 28 | He said that Sybil Vane 's death was a beautiful end to a love story for an actress . |
| 29 | His death was a devastating shock for her . |
| 30 | ‘ When death was a distinct possibility , I realised just how precious life really is . |