Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been kill [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the eldest son , his two brothers having been killed in the Great War . |
| 2 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 3 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 4 | Parents had been killed in the Hamburg bombing , so perhaps she was feeling lonely . |
| 5 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The military estimated on Dec. 4 that 1,853 guerrillas and 450 government troops had been killed since the beginning of the offensive launched by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) in San Salvador on Nov. 11 . |
| 10 | Reports on March 19 suggested that at least 30 Myanman troops had been killed in the Thai offensive . |
| 11 | Statistics released by state security agencies on May 13 showed that 243 police officers had been killed since the start of the year . |
| 12 | The PRD said that 52 of its activists had been killed since the July 1988 general election but that most of the murders had taken place since the municipal elections in December 1989 , the results of which were still in contention in many towns . |
| 13 | A total of 543 Palestinian " collaborators " and 103 Israelis had been killed during the same period . |
| 14 | More than 11,000 rabbits have been killed in the 12 months since the Shetlands council introduced the scheme , which is estimated to have saved acres of grass , cabbages and turnips . |
| 15 | By the end of November an estimated 1,000 civilians had been killed in the latest fighting and up to 6,000 injured . |
| 16 | Of the 750 Nez Perce that had left Idaho , 120 had died , and 87 men , 184 women and 147 children surrendered under Joseph , with 11500 horses and 300 saddles ; 180 whites had been killed in the campaign , with 150 wounded . |
| 17 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 18 | According to official figures , more than 200 women and young girls have been killed during the 23 years of the Troubles . |
| 19 | He renewed an appeal to the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army to prevent further massacres in Bosnia , where hundreds of civilians have been killed in the past month . |
| 20 | A Faroese government spokesman said that only 1,550 whales had been killed in the past ten years in a non-commercial hunt which gave islanders an important local source of nutrition . |
| 21 | He had offered to resign after singing on a TV chat show just after seven men had been killed by the IRA . |
| 22 | And the rest of the children had been killed in the night . |
| 23 | One group said that 150 fellow-prisoners had been killed after the death of 10 Serbian soldiers in a Moslem village . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At eighty-one now he had outlived his family except for his daughter and her children : his wife had died , so had his son-in-law , and both sons had been killed in the war . |
| 26 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 27 | According to a USSR Interior Ministry Commission , over 250 South Ossetians had been killed during the conflict with Georgia , which began in December 1990 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 28 | According to Army figures released on Jan. 3 , 1990 , a total of 1,079 soldiers and 3,697 guerrillas had been killed since the beginning of 1989 in the war against the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) . |
| 29 | The government claimed that 10 guerrillas had been killed for the loss of 12 soldiers , with 66 others wounded , and that three civilians had also been killed and an estimated 50 more wounded . |
| 30 | The Turkish Chief of General Staff , Gen. Dogan Gures , claimed on Nov. 4 that 2,000 guerrillas had been killed in the October offensive , which would be completed within two weeks , and that the next task would be to intensify operations in south-eastern Turkey . |