Example sentences of "to die from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smokers are twice as likely to die from heart disease than non-smokers . |
| 2 | Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways . |
| 3 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 4 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 5 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , of course , and what he is seeing in his mind 's eye , after years of study into world-wide distribution of disease in relation to diet , is the stool of someone unlikely to die from cancer of the bowel . |
| 6 | The Romanian section 's staff had an alarming tendency to die from cancer . |
| 7 | The latest Sizewell A worker to die from leukaemia entered radiation areas only infrequently during his 18 years at the existing Magnox plant . |
| 8 | Gemma was the third pupil at Cleator Moor infants school — 10 miles from the plant — to die from leukaemia in two years . |
| 9 | Too grim a policy of refusal of poor relief was , however , restrained by the fact that Poor Law authorities had a fundamental obligation not to allow the destitute to die from starvation — in such cases the Relieving Officer could be indicted for murder . |
| 10 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 11 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 12 | In the UK the death of Freddie Mercury , 45 , of the rock group Queen , was announced in late November shortly after his declaration that he did have AIDS ; he was the latest of a number of celebrated musicians and other artists to die from AIDS . |
| 13 | With twenty five we 're likely to die falling off a ladder than you are to die from AIDS . |
| 14 | It was estimated that more than 500,000,000 people worldwide were suffering from chronic malnutrition , of whom 17,000,000 were expected to die from hunger . |