Example sentences of "were killed by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 2 | Inevitably , one night in the early years of the war , both he and his dog were killed by a passing train . |
| 3 | More than 200 people , mostly women , were killed by a fire in a Thai toy factory , the worst industrial fire in history . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A farmer is mounting a round-the-clock watch after seven of his sheep were killed by a dog . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Six babies were killed by an unidentified bug at London 's Brompton Hospital 2 1/2 years ago . |
| 12 | Five people were killed by an explosion on a train north of Rostov-na-Donu , in the Russian Federation , late on July 19 . |
| 13 | In an incident possibly connected to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict , 11 people were killed by an explosion on a train en route from Moscow to Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on May 30 . |
| 14 | Tass confirmed the report of armoured vehicles running over students , saying demonstrators were killed by the personnel carriers . |
| 15 | It is now a memorial to all the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia who were killed by the Nazis — a staggering 77,297 . |
| 16 | The nine hostages were killed by the terrorists ; six terrorists and one policeman were also killed . |
| 17 | I was very distressed to hear that Joseph had been forced to flee to Guinea after his friend and later his mother were killed by the rebels . |
| 18 | Most received political asylum in other countries , but others were killed by the security forces . |
| 19 | Members of HEAD were killed by the military during the Marcos years indicating clearly that HEAD was seen to be challenging what was an intolerable situation . |
| 20 | Estimates of the number of people who were killed by the military varied form several hundred to several thousand . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ I answered , glad to have his attention , ‘ those two messengers who were killed by the Maillotins . |
| 22 | The military used the event as an excuse to take action against the PKI , and as many as 500,000 people named as communists and left-wing sympathizers were killed by the end of 1965 . |
| 23 | Following the explosion at Vic two key ETA members of its Barcelona cell were killed by the civil guard in a raid on a house at Llica de Munt , 30 km from Barcelona , on May 30 . |
| 24 | The Buddhist Vesak festival on May 27-29 was marked by the official suspension of offensive operations by the army , but the government claimed that nine soldiers were killed by the LTTE during this three-day period . |
| 25 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 26 | At least 50 civilian demonstrators were killed by the military in a confrontation which ultimately forced Suchinda to resign in June , when the House of Representatives was dissolved and a new interim government appointed ahead of a fresh general election [ see pp. 38816 ; 38865 ; 38894-95 ; 38966 ] . |
| 27 | From 19 study trees in one season , fewer than 4% of the total of more than 430 000 seeds produced had a chance of establishing , for 6% were killed by the parrots , 66% fell under the mother trees and 24% germinated in close competitive clumps in faeces . |
| 28 | Some 1,200 Jumma were killed by the army in Bangladesh . |
| 29 | The demonstrations marked the tenth anniversary of an uprising when at least two hundred people were killed by the security forces . |