Example sentences of "had died [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on eye-witness testimonies by health workers , it concluded that more than 7,000 people had died during Iraqi occupation and that an estimated 17,000 had been held and subjected to torture in camps in Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 2 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 3 | Of the 25 hypertensive men , by 1989 five had died at mean age 47.8 ( range 40–54 ) years , four of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease and one of colorectal cancer . |
| 4 | The fire had died to cold ashes , but I felt my way to where I had seen a candlestick , left ready on the mantelpiece , presumably as insurance against just this event . |
| 5 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 6 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 7 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 8 | Of 46 patients who had Nissen fundoplication for proved gastro-oesophageal reflux , 25 were available for follow up after a median of 20 years , 15 had died of unrelated causes , and six could not be traced . |
| 9 | He had an aunt in Leicester who had died of double pneumonia in 1964 , but she had never wanted to speak to him . |
| 10 | " Several young adult males had died of severe , generalized bacterial or fungal infections . |
| 11 | Three weeks later Lavender had died of puerperal fever , but long before that Legh had come to his senses . |
| 12 | Simon Cormack had died of massive explosive damage to spine and abdomen , caused by a detonation of small but concentrated effect near the base of his back . |
| 13 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |
| 14 | According to Le Monde of Oct. 22 widespread famine had triggered violent protests in a number of northern districts where , the report claimed , up to 5,000 people had died from water-borne diseases in the last two months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The four patients who died had died from unrelated causes . |
| 17 | Three patients had died from unrelated causes . |
| 18 | Most of the dolphins that were washed up had died from internal haemorrhaging . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Those close to him rejected official claims ( later confirmed by a post-morten requested by the Justice Ministry ) that he had died from high blood pressure , alleging instead that he had been tortured . |
| 22 | He had died from natural causes . |
| 23 | At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er |
| 24 | On Feb. 24 IRNA , quoting the chief of the Iraqi Red Crescent , Ibrahim al-Nouri , reported that more than 5,000 women , children and elderly people had died in various hospitals throughout the country since Jan. 17 due to shortages of medicines and medical facilities . |
| 25 | These killings , in Mölln , Schleswig-Holstein , brought to 17 the number of people who had died in extremist attacks during 1992 . |
| 26 | In a report released on Feb. 26 , the human rights organization Amnesty International alleged that more than 550 unarmed people had died in political killings by government or government-backed forces since 1988 , while hundreds of others had " disappeared " . |
| 27 | On Sept. 24 , Yeltsin and the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev achieved a ceasefire agreement between the republics of Azerbaidjan and Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh , where an estimated 800 people had died in inter-ethnic conflict since 1988 . |
| 28 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 29 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 30 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |