Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] kill " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985 , 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down . |
| 2 | A second major disaster at a football game occurred on 15 April 1989 at Hillsborough Stadium , Sheffield , when 95 football fans were killed and 175 badly injured , when they were unable to escape from overcrowded terracing because of the perimeter fencing . |
| 3 | On the sixth day of his latest charity walk , the mighty Botham 's legs were killing him . |
| 4 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 5 | Factional hostility was so great in 1921 as to produce full-scale conflict between the Irkutsk faction and its opponents ; Russian forces intervened to support the Irkutsk group and hundreds of Koreans were killed or wounded . |
| 6 | Three North Koreans were killed and two South Korean soldiers wounded after a heavily armed North Korean patrol was said to have infiltrated the DMZ and encountered a South Korean unit . |
| 7 | An estimated 10,000 penguins were killed in Patagonia last year as a result of oil spills and other pollution . |
| 8 | The military used the event as an excuse to take action against the PKI , and as many as 500,000 people named as communists and left-wing sympathizers were killed by the end of 1965 . |
| 9 | More than 20 journalists were killed or wounded while covering the horrific conflict between the Serbian and Croatian republics , according to the 1991 World Press Freedom Review . |
| 10 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 11 | More journalists were killed in Yugoslavia than in any other country in 1991 . |
| 12 | Ten journalists were killed in Colombia . |
| 13 | The home in Santa Tecla of Saúl Suster , a close friend of Cristiani , was attacked with machine-gun fire on Jan. 25 , 1990 ; two security guards were killed and two others wounded . |
| 14 | Three village guards were killed on Aug. 21 in a raid on a minibus at Kulp , in Diyarbakir province . |
| 15 | Prime Minister Muhammad Hamzah al-Zubaydi escaped an assassination attempt in Nasiriya in early December , but several security guards were killed . |
| 16 | Tiler , Redknapp 's managing director at Bournemouth , and three men travelling in the car were killed . |
| 17 | The order was then carried out by a seaman , and an seven survivors were killed . |
| 18 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 19 | Incidents of continuing violence in the south-east included an operation by the Turkish army on April 16-17 in the province on Mardin , after four government-sponsored village guards and an army officer were kidnapped : 33 PKK fighters were killed . |
| 20 | Lebanese Forces ' Radio Free Lebanon reported that seven Hezbollah fighters were killed in the attack and another seven wounded . |
| 21 | Two fire fighters were killed ten days ago in the fire which gutted most of the factory . |
| 22 | Following the explosion at Vic two key ETA members of its Barcelona cell were killed by the civil guard in a raid on a house at Llica de Munt , 30 km from Barcelona , on May 30 . |
| 23 | All the Jews were killed . |
| 24 | The Germans scattered , but the Lieutenant and a corporal were killed . |
| 25 | The rebels seized the headquarters of the Army and the Naval Prefecture in the centre of Buenos Aires , and the Patricios infantry barracks in the suburbs , the scene of the fiercest fighting , where two loyal officers and a corporal were killed . |
| 26 | Two crewmen of the UK Royal Air Force were killed on Aug. 17 , 1989 , when their Tornado jet crashed into the North Sea near Humberside , just two miles from the spot where three others had been killed in a mid-air collision involving similar aircraft on Aug. 14 , bringing to 24 the number of Tornados lost in British airspace since 1983 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After an incident at Thaba Ntso on Feb. 12 , 1990 , in which three insurgents and a government soldier were killed , the leader of the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ) , Ntsu Mokhehle , denied that his party was involved , adding that the Lesotho Liberation Army , a guerrilla force which he had formerly commanded , had been disbanded after its members had returned to Lesotho between December 1988 and February 1989 [ see p. 36677 ] . |
| 29 | Three of the rebel soldiers and one government soldier were killed . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |