Example sentences of "had died from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |
| 2 | On Feb. 3 the government stated that 31,033 children had died from lack of medicines and food as a result of UN sanctions [ see also p. 38742 ] . |
| 3 | Dr Ceri Williams , consultant pathologist at the hospital , said Mr Prattley had died from fibrosis of the lungs . |
| 4 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 5 | Mr Rice , a surgeon , stated that PC Charlton had died from pressure to the brain caused by a fracture of the skull , this in turn being consistent with the young constable 's head hitting the kerb during the affray . |
| 6 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 7 | Someone , I thought with illumination , who knew how easily Olympia had died from hands round the neck . |
| 8 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |