1.   Do people get sick and die because of the extra pounds they carry on their frames?

2.   Millions of people in Africa continue to die because of war and famine.

3.   To suggest this child died because of mandatory sentence is grotesque.

4.   People in hospitals are dying because of shortage of medicine.

5.   Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses.

6.   The fish are dying because of the chemicals from farms and factories.

7.   Oh, there had been speculation that Scawsby was wrong and the Scotsman had died because of some strange seizure.

8.   One patient died because of pulmonary embolism during the postoperative period.