Example sentences of "that kill [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It is by far the most common cause of asthma in Britain , the allergy that kills 2,000 people a year , incapacitates hundreds of thousands and costs £450 million a year in NHS prescriptions and billions in hospitalisation and time off work . |
2 | Tony , 22 , suffered brain damage when he was crushed at Sheffield Wednesday 's football ground in the tragedy that killed 95 people . |
3 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
4 | THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda . |
5 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |
6 | Safety controls were poor at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal , India , at the time of the 1984 gas leak that killed 3,000 people , according to documents presented to an Indian court . |
7 | LLOYD 'S Register , the largest ship registration organisation , is being sued in America over a ship fire that killed 159 people two years ago . |
8 | And motorway tragedy … witness relives moments before crash that killed three people . |
9 | Some Americans still recall the terrible fire at the Triangle shirt factory in New York in 1911 that killed 145 people . |
10 | That 's because the series of eruptions that killed 350 people in June 1992 left a 3,000-mile long cloud of ash and sulphur dioxide circling the earth . |
11 | Last night Supt Brian Wall , who leads the investigation into the blast that killed 21 people , confirmed new evidence had been found — but refused to elaborate . |
12 | We were no trouble to our mother , who was at last recovering from the dreadful ‘ flu ’ that killed more folk than the 1914 – 18 war itself . |