Example sentences of "been killed [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting back after a two-week visit to Kuwait , an AI fact-finding team said scores of victims had been killed and hundreds more had been arbitrarily arrested , many brutally tortured by Kuwaiti armed forces and members of ‘ resistance ’ groups since 26 February . |
| 2 | Several thousand people massed in the streets of Bamako , and opposition groups said that 148 had been killed and hundreds wounded in the three days . |
| 3 | The FMLN , however , claimed on May 31 that soldiers from El Salvador and Honduras had engaged in " heavy clashes " on May 27 in the border area , in which four Honduran soldiers and one Salvadorean had been killed and nine Honduran and six Salvadorean soldiers wounded , and that the Salvadorean Air Force had strafed and bombed hamlets in the area . |
| 4 | Cairo 's interior ministry said an Egyptian man had been killed and nine Egyptians and five British tourists had been injured . |
| 5 | On Feb. 19 a spokesman for the London-based Association for Free Kuwait said that more than 7,000 civilians had been killed and 17,000 detained since Aug. 2 . |
| 6 | Interior and Security Minister Col. Ghalib Motahar al-Qomesh told parliament on Dec. 20 that 15 people had been killed and 98 injured and that 661 arrests had been made . |
| 7 | Six horses have been killed and fourteen others injured in a road accident involving a lorry . |
| 8 | In addition intelligence figures showed that four people had been killed and 169 injured in attacks on foreigners by neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements in the first eight months of 1991 . |
| 9 | From mid-August 1989 , 25 people were officially reported to have been killed and 109 wounded in 220 drug-related bombings which had caused an estimated US$17,000,000 in damages . |
| 10 | Ochoa stated on Feb. 6 that 14 people had been killed and 57 wounded , and a total of 956 soldiers , five senior officers and 128 other officers had been arrested ; those who had merely followed orders would , he said , be treated leniently . |
| 11 | Two Egyptians have been killed and six British tourists injured in a bomb attack on a coach in Cairo . |
| 12 | Although the overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hammadi suggested during his visit to Tehran in mid-February [ see above ] that more than 20,000 of his compatriots had been killed and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war . |
| 13 | In all 26 people were reported to have been killed and 200 others wounded . |
| 14 | The Governor of Caracas , Antonio Ledezma , reported that 100 prisoners had been killed and 200 injured at the Catia prison in western Caracas , after troops quashed a mass escape attempt sparked by the coup . |
| 15 | On March 5 the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union ( UP ) , Carlos Romero , accused the military of involvement in the repressive activities of paramilitary groups , adding that so far 50 UP members had been killed and 13 had disappeared in 1991 . |
| 16 | Speaking after a tour of Alexandra township , north-east of Johannesburg , where over 30 people had been killed and 2,600 made homeless in the three preceding weeks , the ANC president said that he would be placing this demand urgently before the government . |
| 17 | Nine others had been arrested the previous day , he added , " following a search operation by the army " in which one soldier had been killed and two wounded . |
| 18 | One Albanian had been killed and two Serb soldiers wounded when ethnic Albanians apparently attacked Serbian headquarters in Pristina , the capital of Kosovo , on Nov. 11 . |
| 19 | At least three people have been killed and two critically injured in a shooting incident at the American military base at Fort Knox . |
| 20 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |
| 21 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 22 | The IRA men died ten miles from the spot where ten days earlier eight soldiers had been killed and 27 injured in the Ballygawley bus bombing by the IRA . |
| 23 | Farm animals have been killed and thousands of bales of hay destroyed in a barn fire . |
| 24 | Since then , around seven hundred Arabs have been killed and thousands more injured ; but when one Palestinian falls there 's always another ready to take their place . |
| 25 | When the firing stopped , 13 Catholic had been killed and 29 wounded , one of whom would die several weeks later . |
| 26 | It was originally reported that nine people had been killed and 30 wounded in Mbuji-Mayi , a diamond mining town , during violent demonstrations on April 13 , 14 and 15 [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 27 | By the end of the month an estimated 350 people had been killed and 420,000 left homeless . |
| 28 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported that one person had been killed and 86 injured in clashes between Awami League and BNP supporters . |
| 29 | Kuwaiti sources cited in the International Herald Tribune of Dec. 17 suggested that at least 7,000 Kuwaitis had been killed and 25,000 arrested since the invasion . |
| 30 | According to the Slovene Red Cross , 36 soldiers had been killed and 160 wounded since the declaration of independence , compared with 10 Slovene civilians and 10 foreigners killed , and 2,316 soldiers and 129 federal police had been captured . |