Example sentences of "have been killed [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GERMAN soldier has been killed during a military exercise in Wiltshire . |
| 2 | Imagine that someone has been killed in an industrial accident . |
| 3 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
| 4 | He is thought to have been killed with a high-powered long-range rifle , possibly an American-made Barrett ( Light Fifty ) which has a range of up to 1,800 metres and fires half-inch rounds . |
| 5 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the International Committeee of the Red Cross announced on July 13 that two of its workers had been killed during an armed ambush in Paktia province . |
| 7 | Don Roberto had been killed with a similar knife to the one Trent carried . |
| 8 | The sofa , pinned to the wall , had been killed with a single shot . |
| 9 | Two crewmen of the UK Royal Air Force were killed on Aug. 17 , 1989 , when their Tornado jet crashed into the North Sea near Humberside , just two miles from the spot where three others had been killed in a mid-air collision involving similar aircraft on Aug. 14 , bringing to 24 the number of Tornados lost in British airspace since 1983 . |
| 10 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 11 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 12 | The Press Trust of India reported that some of the Maoists had been killed in a subsequent encounter with police , but there was no confirmation of this at state government level . |
| 13 | The Ulster Unionist chairman said that just over 11 years ago an 11-year-old boy had been killed in a no-warning IRA bomb blast in the town . |
| 14 | The Justice Department on Nov. 7 charged Walter Leroy Moody Jr with the murders of Judge Robert S. Vance and NAACP lawyer Robert E. Robinson , who had been killed in a mail-bomb campaign in December 1989 [ see p. 37408 ] . |
| 15 | Markov , an exiled writer and broadcaster , had been killed by a poisoned pellet fired into his leg from a fake umbrella on London 's Waterloo Bridge [ see p. 32997 ] . |
| 16 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 17 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 18 | On Aug. 31 the head of the Saudi-backed fundamentalist Ahle Hadith group , Maulana Jamilur Rahman , had been killed by an Arab gunman in Bajaur Agency , Kunar province . |
| 19 | In good organic style , the flies have been killed by a parasitic fungus , probably Entomophthora . |
| 20 | More than a hundred and thirty people have been killed in an Iranian plane crash near Tehran . |