Example sentences of "men have been killed " in BNC.

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1 He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which , inadequately composed , had grown ; in one case thirteen men had been killed .
2 So many men had been killed or wounded in the war , that it would be ten years before another generation would fin the gaps .
3 Four men had been killed .
4 At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car .
5 It was true that men had been killed for less reason .
6 When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation .
7 He had offered to resign after singing on a TV chat show just after seven men had been killed by the IRA .
8 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 .
9 Two men have been killed and seven people injured in crashes in Co Derry .
10 For example , if there is an imbalance of the sexes in an age group either through natural variation in the sex ratio or because men have been killed during war or are at war , the overall marriage rate for that age will tend to fall temporarily and that for the less numerous sex will rise .
11 Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor .
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