Example sentences of "been killed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people had been killed since the weekend . |
| 2 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 3 | The military estimated on Dec. 4 that 1,853 guerrillas and 450 government troops had been killed since the beginning of the offensive launched by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) in San Salvador on Nov. 11 . |
| 4 | According to Army figures released on Jan. 3 , 1990 , a total of 1,079 soldiers and 3,697 guerrillas had been killed since the beginning of 1989 in the war against the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) . |
| 5 | The PRD said that 52 of its activists had been killed since the July 1988 general election but that most of the murders had taken place since the municipal elections in December 1989 , the results of which were still in contention in many towns . |
| 6 | Statistics released by state security agencies on May 13 showed that 243 police officers had been killed since the start of the year . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 8 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 9 | By this time more than 20 people had been killed since the beginning of the month in a spate of bombings and gun battles between Ossetes and Georgian militia detachments . |
| 10 | It was the first time that a foreign tourist had been killed since the start of the intifada in 1987 . |
| 11 | Almost a million dolphins have been killed over the past 20 years , and the populations of dolphins and porpoises in the Black Sea have been decimated . |
| 12 | The construction of levadas to carry irrigation and drinking-water has always been a difficult feat of engineering , and many men have been killed over the years in their construction . |
| 13 | ‘ There are many who have been killed without the knowledge of the public , ’ said Mr Longwe . |
| 14 | He rang police to say she was missing — and was told she had been killed under the wheels of a tractor . |
| 15 | Two men running to market to look for food had been killed at the crossroads by a sniper . |
| 16 | By some miracle the other infant , a girl born to Mrs Wright , the widow of a railway engineer who had been killed at the rampart some weeks earlier , survived . |
| 17 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 18 | Further to the March-April prison camp revelations , the Interior Ministry on June 7 denied allegations made recently by the UDF in the Washington Post that 20,000 people had been killed at the Lovech and other camps . |
| 19 | The Washington Post of Dec. 12 reported that more than 1,150 people had already been killed with the daily death toll at around 200 . |
| 20 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 21 | The government claimed that 10 guerrillas had been killed for the loss of 12 soldiers , with 66 others wounded , and that three civilians had also been killed and an estimated 50 more wounded . |
| 22 | It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe 's regaining consciousness . |
| 23 | One hundred and fifty had been killed on the railway — but many of those were suicides and not passengers . |
| 24 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 25 | ‘ Kitty told us you 'd been killed on the Western Front and that was why she ‘ ad to sell 112 . |
| 26 | She burst into tears and told me that Charlie had been killed on the Western Front . |
| 27 | Israeli groups are planning protests over the weekend , with special attention focusing on a march in Jerusalem by the Peace Now movement in which demonstrators will carry pictures of some of the 130 Palestinian and four Jewish children under 16 who have been killed during the unrest . |
| 28 | And , of course , nine French policemen have already been killed during the past month . |
| 29 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 30 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |