Example sentences of "died from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 2 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 3 | More than 20 animals , mostly calves , have died from lead poisoning . |
| 4 | The main ‘ problem ’ caused by the pesticide that is questioned by Mr Erlichman in his article is that millions of people are alive today throughout the Third World who would otherwise have died from insect-borne diseases or from starvation because insects destroyed their crops . |
| 5 | In Wiltshire , a doctor has died from the flu virus . |
| 6 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 8 | The later wildness and eccentricity of his style were completely out of character with his conventional , moral and industrious way of life ; his obituary reported that he had died from overwork . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 10 | Most of the dolphins that were washed up had died from internal haemorrhaging . |
| 11 | According to official figures , as of February 1st 141 Thais had died from AIDS and 14,116 were infected with HIV , the virus that causes the disease . |
| 12 | Someone , I thought with illumination , who knew how easily Olympia had died from hands round the neck . |
| 13 | Surgeons operated on a 22-year-old American male who had died from gunshot wounds . |
| 14 | An hour after the seven-year-old bitch 's death a veterinary surgeon found its body temperature was 109.2 degrees and it had died from heart failure caused by heat stress , Birmingham magistrates were told . |
| 15 | Three weeks ago , police closed the investigation after a medical review by Dr Iain West , a Home Office pathologist , indicated Mr Threlfall had died from a self-induced overdose of narcotics . |
| 16 | ( Died from falling down a flight of steps and fracturing his skull . ) |
| 17 | By the 1980s 300 people had died from eating the poisoned fish , and at least 1500 more were disabled . |
| 18 | The National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) which advises the government on radiation hazards , now estimates that up to a hundred people will have died from the fallout . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 21 | Foxes have thick pelts and many a fox has died from gangrene caused by shotgun pellets ; again a slow and agonising death . |
| 22 | 7 per cent of Bewick swans and 48 per cent of Whooper swans were found at post mortem to have died from lead shot poisoning . |
| 23 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |
| 24 | By spring of the following year , two-thirds of the village had died from exposure and hunger . |
| 25 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 26 | He had died from natural causes . |
| 27 | If it is closely examined at this point it appears to have died from shock , but then a few moments later it may revive miraculously and fly off . |
| 28 | In 1988 a baby dolphin was found floating in the Bay , it had died from toxic hepatitis and its body was heavily contaminated with organochlorines . |
| 29 | This was in memory of a local boy who had died from multiple sclerosis and it was hoped that the prize would encourage the young men to take part . |
| 30 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |