Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been killed [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 2 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 3 | The government announced on Feb. 12 that 8,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed by allied air raids during the Gulf war . |
| 4 | Some reports estimated that some 7,000 Kuwaiti civilians had been killed by Iraqi forces by the end of the year . |
| 5 | It was true that men had been killed for less reason . |
| 6 | Two of her sons had been killed in 1980 and the other disappeared in 1981 . |
| 7 | Croatia was successfully regaining villages in Western Slavonia , it was reported on Dec. 20 , though 70 soldiers had been killed in one attempt to retake an area south of Zagreb . |