Example sentences of "died of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 TWO men died of horrific injuries after their car overturned and ploughed into a lamp-post yesterday .
2 His friend Amos Boner , a front seat passenger , died of multiple injuries .
3 Barmaid Beryl Rose ( 46 ) , BT van driver Peter Stott and mother-of-three Angela Rooke all died of multiple injuries .
4 A hearing at Bishop Auckland was told that 81-year-old Edith Humphrey died of multiple injuries and her daughter Iris Blenkinsop , 57 , died of chest injuries in a crash involving their car and a tipper lorry .
5 Her mother Edith Humphrey , of Ash Hill , Colby , Middlesbrough , who was sitting behind , died of multiple injuries .
6 ONE of the most popular Liverpool 60s bands , The Dennisons , are to reform for a one-off tribute to their late bass guitarist , Terry ‘ Tex ’ Carson , who died of multiple sclerosis last year .
7 She was flown to hospital by helicopter in a coma but died of multiple skull fractures .
8 If a person died of coronary heart disease but was never admitted to hospital we used the date of death as the incidence date .
9 What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum .
10 Twice as many people died of alcohol-induced liver disease in 1986 compared with 1956
11 In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) .
12 Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months .
13 Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms .
14 ‘ And wrung their hands when patients died of simple infections because penicillin had n't been discovered , ’ teased Dominic .
15 One of them had leaked and he died of toxic shock .
16 The early death of a sibling is an event which Dally cites as being common in the histories of anorexics , and a year or so later my baby sister died of bronchial pneumonia .
17 One patient in the control group died of pulmonary embolism .
18 The patient died of thromboembolic complications .
19 The patient died of thromboembolic complications .
20 ‘ 4,620 people died of aortic aneurysms ( non-syphilitic ) , ’ Howard reads out .
21 We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment .
22 Three patients underwent successful liver transplantation and two others died of hepatic failure while awaiting transplant surgery .
23 Two months later , he died of terrible injuries .
24 At least 60 million people died of diarrhoeal diseases caused by malnutrition and dirty water .
25 Ian , 17 , died of acute alcohol poisoning and choking on his own vomit after the traditional celebration to mark completion of the gruelling 30-week course at the Commando Training Centre , Lympstone , Devon .
26 Four patients died of acute pancreatitis and its complications .
27 One patient died of pancreatic cancer seven years later .
28 Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) .
29 In the English translation from the French of her book entitled The Secret of Life and Youth Danièl Ryman — ex-pupil of Mme Maury who has continued her work for over 20 years — writes , ‘ Marguerite Maury possessed some of the eccentricities of genius … she was a veritable whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm , working ceaselessly until , quite literally , she died of sheer overwork , of a stroke during the night of 25 September , 1968 ’ .
30 Two years later her son died of yellow fever .
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