Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have died [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 2 | some youngsters have died at their first sniffing session |
| 3 | On Jan. 9 the environmental group Greenpeace claimed that between 70,000 and 90,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct result of allied bombing ; the total number of Iraqi civilian and military war-related deaths was estimated at between 177,500 and 243,000 . |
| 4 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 5 | A leading Soviet demographer estimated that altogether 9,400,000 peasants had died during Stalin 's collectivization programme in the early 1930s . |
| 6 | Some detainees had died in detention , the report added , among whom were prisoners of conscience who had been detained " for the non-violent exercise of their fundamental rights " . |
| 7 | Torture and ill-treatment remains prevalent and some detainees have died as an apparent result of ill-treatment . |
| 8 | Some detainees have died in detention or shortly following their release as a direct consequence of ill-treatment in prison and lack of adequate medical care . |
| 9 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 10 | New cases of BSE in the UK " where 88,000 animals have died of the disease so far " rose from 675 to 885 a week over the past year , although the government 's chief scientist insists the figure will start to decline by the end of this year . |
| 11 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 12 | The Queen had said at a banquet given by Emperor Akihito that the atrocities had caused a " deep gulf " between the two countries ; Netherlands figures indicated that some 21,320 of the 138,500 internees had died during their internment . |
| 13 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 14 | Conversely 35 cases have died from bowel cancer at an average of 43.5 years ( range 26–69 years ) . |
| 15 | Three patients had died from unrelated causes . |
| 16 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 17 | Scores of Australian languages have died with their last fluent speakers . |
| 18 | Three children have died on Cheshire 's roads so far this year and a total of almost 400 injured . |
| 19 | When we moan about them , we should remember that 31 reporters have died in Yugoslavia since the fighting began . |
| 20 | Reporters who visited the Dollo camp , about 425 miles south-west of Addis Ababa , said three babies had died within two hours . |
| 21 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 22 | Many things had died in this room and left their stink behind . |
| 23 | 7 mental patients have died in the Oxford region . |
| 24 | Circumstantial evidence suggests that many trees have died in areas of Germany where acid rain is most prevalent . |
| 25 | Amnesty claimed that many children had died of torture , carried out to extract confessions from opposition detainees , and that many had " disappeared " . |
| 26 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 27 | On the same day Baasam Abu Sharif , senior adviser to Arafat , claimed that 210 Palestinians had died in Kuwait under torture , and by shooting and hanging , and that hundreds of Palestinians were being held in police stations and were being tortured " in indescribable ways " . |
| 28 | Common dolphins have virtually disappeared from the western Mediterranean in recent years and hundreds of striped dolphins have died in the Mediterranean since 1990 [ see ED nos. 55 , 58 , 59 ] . |
| 29 | It is conservatively estimated that not less than 120,000 persons have died of actual starvation during the last two years in the Lebanon alone . |
| 30 | He combed the records and learnt that two of Suite 1723 's former occupants had died in office and another ( like Orton , a Utah man ) was driven from Washington by scandal . |