Example sentences of "have died from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could have died from embarrassment ! |
| 5 | In any event he would have died from his injuries within hours . |
| 6 | The legend was embellished further when a visiting American academic suggested Molly could have died from typhoid contracted from eating infected cockles and mussels from Dublin Bay . |
| 7 | Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said . |