Example sentences of "been killed by [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
5 | Donna said could n't Steve and Angelica both have been killed by a mallet ? |
6 | A bright , positive girl was interviewing a vacuous-looking man on whose show a member of the public had recently been killed by a stuntsman 's cage falling on him . |
7 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
8 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
9 | Autopsies carried out by forensic experts reportedly concluded that some victims had been killed by a bullet in the head after having been wounded . |
10 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
11 | In good organic style , the flies have been killed by a parasitic fungus , probably Entomophthora . |
12 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
13 | The authorities reported on Jan. 11 that Francis Ona , the leader of the Bougainville rebels , had been killed by a more militant faction of the BRA and had been succeeded by Sam Kauona , an explosives expert trained by the Australian Army . |
14 | Markov , an exiled writer and broadcaster , had been killed by a poisoned pellet fired into his leg from a fake umbrella on London 's Waterloo Bridge [ see p. 32997 ] . |
15 | Up to 73 Yanomami Indians have been killed by a group of garimpeiros , illegal miners who have moved into the Indians ' reserve in the Amazonian forests on the borders of Brazil and Venezuela . |
16 | Sergeant Elie Tardivel tells how in June seven men from a neighbouring platoon had just been killed by a single French 155 shell . |
17 | The occasion was a documentary film I was making on the life of Airey Neave , the MP who had masterminded her election to the Tory leadership and , as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , been killed by an IRA car bomb when leaving the Palace of Westminster . |
18 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
19 | A car bomb in Bilbao on Jan. 8 injured a woman and her daughter ; two other members of the same family , which was apparently involved in drug trafficking , had been killed by an ETA car bomb in 1989 . |
20 | The Voice of Israel radio reported on April 22 that two " terrorists " had been killed by an IDF unit the previous evening after infiltrating northern Galilee . |
21 | On Aug. 31 the head of the Saudi-backed fundamentalist Ahle Hadith group , Maulana Jamilur Rahman , had been killed by an Arab gunman in Bajaur Agency , Kunar province . |
22 | A woman has been killed by an avalanche while skiing in the French Alps . |
23 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
24 | But the stench of diesel oil gave away the fact that the fish had not been killed by the bad weather . |
25 | The heckler said his cousin had been killed by the IRA and that he hated all Irish . |
26 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
27 | But the numerous and well-educated Isaak people of the north , some 50,000 of whom have been killed by the government , are the type to settle scores . |
28 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
29 | I wonder if the company have any idea how much wildlife has been killed by the lack of water . |
30 | He is murdered by a peasant , Gaspard , whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman . |