Example sentences of "have been killed by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Transport Minister , Mr Robert Atkins , said : ‘ Christmas is a family time of year , but for some families Christmas is going to be unbearable , because a loved one has been killed by a drink-driver . ’ |
| 2 | I wonder if the company have any idea how much wildlife has been killed by the lack of water . |
| 3 | He is murdered by a peasant , Gaspard , whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman . |
| 4 | The report undermines the industry 's often-repeated assertion that nobody has been killed by the British nuclear programme . |
| 5 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 6 | A woman has been killed by an avalanche while skiing in the French Alps . |
| 7 | A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind . |
| 8 | ‘ What happens , ’ he asked the darkness , ‘ if Sir Ralph has been killed by secret peasant leaders ? |
| 9 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 10 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
| 11 | In 520 hours of observation , he saw only two lambs being brought to the nest that might have been killed by eagles . |
| 12 | Or , of course , if she is muzzled , she may have been killed by other predators against which she would have had no defence . |
| 13 | Sam Beggs , director of the Australian Pigeon Fanciers ' Association , said : ‘ A lot of the birds may have been killed by gun clubs . ’ |
| 14 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 15 | So you could have been killed by one of our own guns ? |
| 16 | Ruthven could have been killed by magic . ’ |
| 17 | You could have been killed by your own foolhardiness and so could others in an attempt to find you . ’ |
| 18 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 19 | Indeed several attempts were made on her life , until finally one day she was found dead on the rocks , thought to have been killed by gelignite . |
| 20 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 21 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 22 | Abroad three foreign journalists including a Briton are reported to have been killed by sniper fire in the Somali capital Mogadishou . |
| 23 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 24 | In the space of two days — Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 — at least 600 people were reliably estimated to have been killed by the army and police and in succeeding days more killings and arrests were reported as troops raided premises , principally in Port-au Prince , in search of troops loyal to Aristide . |
| 25 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 26 | The heckler said his cousin had been killed by the IRA and that he hated all Irish . |
| 27 | They had been killed by Charlie Company , very few of whose members had refused to obey the orders of Lieutenant William Calley . |
| 28 | By I7 October 1983 six marines had been killed by snipers but Reagan claimed that their presence in the Lebanon was ‘ vitally important to the security of the United States and the Western world ’ . |
| 29 | Personifying , as he did , the local , all-powerful gentry of the day , Henry was wont to indulge in the occasional deflowering of local maidens , and it was strongly rumoured that a serving girl at Lambourn Palace had been killed by Hippisley in a fit of temper . |
| 30 | Waksman is said to have been shown a culture of tubercle bacilli which had been killed by a fungus in 1932 , but he was not tempted to pursue the implications of this observation . |