Example sentences of "[unc] death the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 2 | He inherited little from his father , but his wife , Suzan , was daughter of a wealthy lawyer , George Bennett , and after the latter 's death the Le Fanus moved into the dead man 's house in Merrion Square , Dublin . |
| 3 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 4 | There were , inevitably , undesirable aspects in this emphasis on preaching : congregations shopped about and when a preacher died the congregation dwindled : after Spurgeon 's death the attendance at the Tabernacle fell from over ten thousand to just over 3,500 . |
| 5 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 6 | Following Dundee 's death the Jacobites suffered a series of defeats , the last , and decisive one , on 1 May 1690 , at Cromdale in Moray , about 30 miles [ 48 km ] east of Inverness . |
| 7 | Samuel Sharp , tells us that on Wilfrid 's death the monks of the priory helped to carry his body from Oundle in Northamptonshire to Ripon Abbey , where he was buried . |
| 8 | But the most chilling moment was when a 200-page play , written by the woman , with Hendry 's death the climax , was received entitled : Death by Dagger in the Billiards Room . |
| 9 | Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin . |
| 10 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 11 | Aware that Prince Charles was the key to their bid to take control of the church , shortly before James 's death the Arminian polemicist Richard Montagu entitled his new theological work Appello Caesarem — An Appeal to Caesar . |
| 12 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 13 | Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ . |
| 14 | Isaac remained his father 's sole heir , and on Abraham 's death the blessing of God became his . |
| 15 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 16 | Soon after Allhusen 's death the Tyneside factory was amalgamated in the United Alkali Co . |
| 17 | By the time of Shuttleworth 's death the firm had manufactured 19,000 portable steam engines and 17,000 threshing machines , as well as finishing machines , straw and hay elevators , and portable grinding-mills . |
| 18 | In protest at the teacher 's death the teachers ' unions ordered an immediate strike in all schools . |
| 19 | Even at the time of Chlothar 's death the issue of the succession seems to have been undecided . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) Provided that where after a partner 's death the partnership business is continued in the old firm-name , the continued use of that name or of the deceased partner 's name as part thereof shall not of itself make his executors or administrators estate or effects liable for any partnership debts contracted after his death . |
| 21 | Police launched an investigation into Henry 's death the next morning … they talked to party-goers and tried to trace the supply chain of the drug . |
| 22 | But 9 months after Warden Sparrow 's death the collection 's being sold off . |
| 23 | At the moment of Jesus ' death the curtain of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom . |
| 24 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |