Example sentences of "had die [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine lost a whole litter by feeding them a wild goose which he thought had died as a result of a collision with overhead power cables . |
| 2 | He had died as a result of being labelled a ‘ capitalist roader ’ and ‘ revisionist ’ , although he was later posthumously rehabilitated and praised by the Party . |
| 3 | Quite rightly all hell broke loose in the USA because the FAA had not implemented one of the vital NTSB recommendations after the Windsor accident , and 346 people had died as a result . |
| 4 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 5 | Earlier , the Iraqi government had told the UN sanctions committee that 6,000 children had died as a result of the embargo . |
| 6 | According to official statistics reported in the Guardian of Jan. 2 , 1992 , more than 14,469 people had died as a result of the Sikh separatist campaign in northern India since 1985 . |
| 7 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 8 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 9 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 10 | A total of between 350,000 and 390,000 seabirds had died as a result of the spill , while the effects had spread into the food chain over 500 miles from the Prince William Sound . |
| 11 | Consultant pathologist Dr Stephen Dundas who carried out a post mortem said Mr Ryder had died as a result of overdosing on both tablets and alcohol . |
| 12 | The only thing Father Dolan had been able to tell her was that her mother had died of a fever soon after arriving in the town ; he himself had learned this from the constable . |
| 13 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 14 | In May 1957 , seven years after his wife Hannah had died of a heart attack , Hughie Gallacher hit rock bottom . |
| 15 | Returning home with the other prisoners of war , he found his father had died of a heart attack . |
| 16 | At 8am , the hospital formally announced that Conor had died of a heart attack . |
| 17 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 18 | Steen had died of a heart attack . |
| 19 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 20 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 21 | If the evidence meant anything Riddle had died of a bullet fired into his neck , not of a stake driven through his heart . |
| 22 | Delaney had , since his young wife , Pam , who always worried stiff at his parachuting , had died underneath a juggernaut , with the son she would have given life to in one month 's time . |
| 23 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
| 24 | He had died from a shotgun would . |
| 25 | The authors noted that one of the eight deaths had been recorded as being from motor neurone disease even though the patient had died from a myelopathy secondary to severe cervical spondylosis . |
| 26 | Besides , Cecilia had the example of poor Evelina before her and the recollection of a family rumour that a brother of that manufacturing grandfather had died in a lunatic asylum . |
| 27 | But ten million people had died in a campaign that had begun as a summer frolic in 1914 and now ended in a shower of November rain . |
| 28 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 29 | On March 24 , France-Inter reported that the army had again opened fire on demonstrators , and that 65 people had died in a shopping centre which troops set ablaze after demonstrators took refuge there . |
| 30 | Russell quoted one case in which a person had died in a fire . |