Example sentences of "die from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times as many people die from prostate cancer as from cervical cancer , yet it is under-recognised , under-researched and there is no screening programme . |
| 2 | I die from loss , or I die from guilt , and either way I die . |
| 3 | Each year over a million African children die from diarrhoea spread by dirty water . |
| 4 | Polyp feeding Butterflyfish which die from starvation in captivity |
| 5 | They die from starvation , but the stapelia has been fertilised . |
| 6 | In the Indian subcontinent , where large numbers of people work on the land , it is estimated that many thousands of people die from snake bites every year . |
| 7 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 8 | Should we be passive and possibly die from lack of self defence — or shoot him dead and be tried for culpable homicide ? |
| 9 | More than half of the deaths are attributable to circulatory disease , whilst nearly a third of the population die from cancer . |
| 10 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 11 | Others die from entanglement in fishing nets . |
| 12 | It is not known exactly how many people die from hypothermia ( ie die ‘ from cold ’ , because their inner body temperature has become dangerously low ) , but thousands of older people do die each winter from cold-related conditions . |
| 13 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 from cancer of the cervix . |
| 14 | Each year , more than 15,000 women in Britain die from breast cancer and about 2,000 form cancer of the cervix . |
| 15 | Many animals die from trauma en route . |
| 16 | In consequence , when children die from neglect or are maltreated by their carers , questions are always asked about the role of the formal carers ; implicitly or explicitly , there is an assumption that formal care systems have in some way been deficient . |
| 17 | I die from loss , or I die from guilt , and either way I die . |
| 18 | Around 4,000 koala bears are run down by traffic , killed by dogs or die from disease and lack of food in Australia every year , preservationists said . |
| 19 | Or we die from boredom . |