Example sentences of "be killed by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ferrets force the rabbits to abandon their homes and bolt to the surface , where they can be killed by a number of methods . |
| 2 | If carried to extremes , no-one would cross the road because of the outside possibility that they might stumble and be killed by a car . |
| 3 | The animal bounced back to its feet only to be killed by a bus . |
| 4 | Trevor was the third person to be killed by a grizzly in Jasper Park since 1929 . |
| 5 | AN SAS hero survived daring undercover operations during the Gulf War — only to be killed by a mate 's tragic blunder on a peacetime exercise . |
| 6 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 7 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 8 | In her dream a voice said to her , ‘ Your son will be killed by a sheep , or by a clock falling on him . ’ |
| 9 | From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) . |
| 10 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 11 | Taking a little live yoghurt or a lactobacillus supplement ( available as acidophilus capsules : the best are enteric coated , which prevent the capsule dissolving in the stomach where the acidophilus would be killed by the stomach juices thus allowing a safe passage to the lower gut where they are needed ) will often help to restore this balance more quickly . |
| 12 | They believe that the parasites which spread malaria by infecting red blood cells , may be killed by the release of highly reactive substances called ‘ free-oxygen radicals ’ from specialised cells produced by the body 's immune system . |
| 13 | They were Jonathan 's children , sleeping in the workhouse , waiting to be killed by the tragic compulsion of their father . |
| 14 | Many of the dozens of books that have just been published in the Autumn list were meant to take advantage of the surge of interest caused by the World Cup ; but a few will simply be killed by the rush , lost for ever . |
| 15 | ( i ) Pick up the animal to be killed by the base of its tail as described in Section 3.1 . |
| 16 | But what will really happen is that you will be killed by the soldiers and the world will be rid of a smooth , plausible rascal . " |
| 17 | Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn . |
| 18 | But in fact , it was just as likely that he would be killed by the first group of native Tarvarians he encountered . |
| 19 | Are we to be killed by the Cubans or the Russians ? ’ |
| 20 | The appeals court ruling greatly reduces the chances that Peter McMullen , who claims he will be killed by the IRA if he is deported to Britain , will be allowed to stay in the United States . |
| 21 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 22 | Inevitably , one night in the early years of the war , both he and his dog were killed by a passing train . |
| 23 | More than 200 people , mostly women , were killed by a fire in a Thai toy factory , the worst industrial fire in history . |
| 24 | On 21 December 1989 , at Lockerbie all 259 passengers and crew on a Pan Am jumbo going to New York were killed by a bomb . |
| 25 | As isolated assassinations of the police and security forces continued in Algiers and elsewhere , three people were killed by a bomb which exploded at Constantine university on May 6 . |
| 26 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 27 | A farmer is mounting a round-the-clock watch after seven of his sheep were killed by a dog . |
| 28 | The families of five young people who were killed by a reckless driver say they 're outraged over a decision to reduce his prison sentence . |
| 29 | Particularly terrible was the suffering of Franz Marc 's horses ; in one day alone , 7,000 died , and 97 were killed by a single shot from a French naval gun . |
| 30 | Hundreds of graduates of the Royal Marines School of Music at Deal gathered for their annual reunion service two weeks after 10 bandsmen were killed by an IRA bomb . |