Example sentences of "been killed by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the stench of diesel oil gave away the fact that the fish had not been killed by the bad weather . |
| 2 | The heckler said his cousin had been killed by the IRA and that he hated all Irish . |
| 3 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wonder if the company have any idea how much wildlife has been killed by the lack of water . |
| 7 | He is murdered by a peasant , Gaspard , whose child has been killed by the furious driving of his coachman . |
| 8 | The report undermines the industry 's often-repeated assertion that nobody has been killed by the British nuclear programme . |
| 9 | Pundir has found that a large number of S. cordifolia have been killed by the hyperparasite V. loranthi , resulting in a sharp decline in the S. cordifolia population , An additional factor in favour of this system is its specificity . |
| 10 | Had someone been killed by the mail train ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Over the last few decades , at least 150,000 Mayan Indians have been killed by the army , one million have been displaced and a further 40,000 have ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 13 | It was known that he had been archbishop of Canterbury between 1006 and 1012 , and that he had been killed by the Danes for refusing to pay Danegeld . |
| 14 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 15 | By the time Britain withdrew her forces , some 200 British soldiers and 90 policemen had been killed by the Jewish terrorists . |
| 16 | However , Chicot and his father had been killed by the Nazis , and no one knew what had happened to the girl . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A bomb on May 1 destroyed a newly unveiled monument in Volta Redonda , approximately 100 km north-west of Rio de Janeiro , to three steelworkers who had been killed by the Army during a strike in November 1988 [ see p. 36553 ] . |
| 19 | Liberian radio reported in late January that two Nigerian journalists , Knees Imodibie and Tayo Awotunsin , missing in Liberia since August 1990 , had been killed by the NPFL in October . |
| 20 | Other sources claimed that 10 members of the ruling Ba'ath party had also been killed by the demonstrators . |
| 21 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 22 | All-India Radio reported on May 6 that 66 " Pakistan-trained militants " had been killed by the Indian security forces the previous day in Jammu and Kashmir . |
| 23 | Subsequent reports put the numbers of dead and wounded far higher , the opposition daily Madagascar Tribune claiming that 138 people had been killed by the guard , and that , in addition , 40 to 80 corpses had been found in a mass grave . |
| 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 | Figures published in the Independent of Nov. 28 stated that 13 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli forces during November ( compared with six in November 1991 ) , one Israeli had been killed by Palestinians ( as in November 1991 ) and four " collaborators " had been killed by Palestinians ( compared with six ) . |
| 26 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 27 | He had offered to resign after singing on a TV chat show just after seven men had been killed by the IRA . |
| 28 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 29 | Ten joyriders have now been killed by the Security Forces since nineteen-eighty , while one soldier was killed when struck by a stolen car . |