Example sentences of "were killed [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on April 2 , at least 25 OLF supporters were killed during a demonstration in Weter in western Ethiopia . |
| 2 | A Nepalese member of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) and a Hezbollah fighter were killed during a clash on Nov. 12 near the villages of Kafra and Yatar , on the northern edge of the " security zone " ; three other UNIFIL members were wounded . |
| 3 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 4 | Budapest Radio said several people were killed at a demonstration in the Transylvanian town of Tirgu Mures yesterday . |
| 5 | On June 16 six students were killed on a college campus in Dhaka during a gun battle between rival groups loyal to the BNP and to the Awami League . |
| 6 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 7 | Internally , it was a different matter where ultra-nationalist rivals and critics of even temporary accommodation with the French , as well as those who were suspected of favouring them , were being liquidated in purges which were probably as bloody as most in Eastern Europe and on some occasions it seems the former were killed as a result of Franco-Vietminh collaboration . |
| 8 | Presumably A is being prosecuted for murder ; but the question does not actually say that A 's fellows were killed as a result of what he did . |
| 9 | According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 . |
| 10 | A farmer is mounting a round-the-clock watch after seven of his sheep were killed by a dog . |
| 11 | More than 200 people , mostly women , were killed by a fire in a Thai toy factory , the worst industrial fire in history . |
| 12 | On 21 December 1989 , at Lockerbie all 259 passengers and crew on a Pan Am jumbo going to New York were killed by a bomb . |
| 13 | As isolated assassinations of the police and security forces continued in Algiers and elsewhere , three people were killed by a bomb which exploded at Constantine university on May 6 . |
| 14 | Five people were killed by an explosion on a train north of Rostov-na-Donu , in the Russian Federation , late on July 19 . |
| 15 | In an incident possibly connected to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict , 11 people were killed by an explosion on a train en route from Moscow to Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on May 30 . |
| 16 | A MAN and his pet dog were killed in a crash near Darlington . |
| 17 | The third man who escaped last night was John , known as Joe , Steele ( 31 ) , who is serving a life sentence for murder for his part in Glasgow 's ice-cream wars in which a family of six , including an 18-month-old baby , were killed in a petrol bomb attack . |
| 18 | NINE rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces near the Syrian border , Ankara authorities said yesterday , adding claims that Kurdish separatists receive foreign support . |
| 19 | The worst incidents of fighting were reported from the provinces of Siirt and Hakkari , where at least 30 Kurdish guerrillas and nine soldiers , including a garrison commander , were killed in a week of intense fighting at the end of July . |
| 20 | Men went down with two or three of the beasts ripping at them ; others fell overboard and were killed in a froth of churning water . |
| 21 | Hot on the Clapham accident , five passengers were killed in a collision at Purley ( south of Croydon ) , again involving two Southern Region electric multiple units . |
| 22 | Two people were killed in a train crash at Bellgrove and four at Newton on similar single-lead junction lay-outs . |
| 23 | Mr Justice Higgins 's home had already been attacked in February 1987 , and in mid-1988 three civilians were killed in a landmine attack on a car thought to belong to him [ see p. 36238 ] . |
| 24 | Weeks after 24 Vietnamese were killed in a riot at Sek Kong camp , the UN wants 25 per cent cuts on education , employment , health and recreation spending . |
| 25 | On the 29th , nine policemen were killed in a bomb attack on Haifa Police Headquarters . |
| 26 | Four Azerbaijani Interior Ministry troops and three Armenian guerrillas were killed in a gun battle at Martunashen , just inside Azerbaijan , on Dec. 4 . |
| 27 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 28 | The day after twenty-five people died in massacres in South Africa , two more were killed in a gun attack which injured two others . |
| 29 | Then , sensing that her manner was too abrupt for courtesy , added , ‘ They were killed in a traffic accident in France . ’ |
| 30 | In contrast to the melodramatic historical memoirs there is a poignant moment when Suwelo faces the memory of his parents , who were killed in a car accident . |