Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have been killed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs : bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks , and there was much blood , showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes , rather than taken as carrion by crows . |
| 2 | US officials in Jakarta furnished the names of about 5,000 Communist activists to the Indonesian Army and then checked off the names as the army reported that the individuals had been killed or captured . |
| 3 | In good organic style , the flies have been killed by a parasitic fungus , probably Entomophthora . |
| 4 | And the rest of the children had been killed in the night . |
| 5 | If he drew a positive result from his questions , he would have something else to tell the policeman , as well as the manner in which he believed the victims had been killed . |
| 6 | Human rights activists on April 12 challenged the official assertion that the victims had been killed by " criminals " . |
| 7 | The Press Trust of India reported that some of the Maoists had been killed in a subsequent encounter with police , but there was no confirmation of this at state government level . |