Example sentences of "[was/were] killed [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day no one has accurately computed how many millions of people were killed under the rule of Lenin and Stalin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , eighteen people were killed during the year . |
| 6 | Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion , including the Amir 's half-brother , Shaikh Fahd al-Ahmad al Sabah . |
| 7 | Between 1981 and 1984 alone , 80,000 Mayans were killed during the army 's scorched-earth campaign in which 440 villages were razed . |
| 8 | Indira Gandhi 's assassination was itself an act of revenge by her Sikh bodyguards , after hundreds of Sikhs were killed during the clearing of extremists from their Golden Temple in Amritsar . |
| 9 | About 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed during the conflict and about 37,000 injured . |
| 10 | Compressed as the battle arena had become , losses suffered among the senior commanders were every bit as grievous as among the rank-and-file ; in one French division , three out of four full colonels were killed during the mid-March fighting . |
| 11 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 12 | The construction of the tunnel was very difficult in the Victorian age , men were killed during the excavations , and the depth of 500ft below the surface at one point exposed numerous problems . |
| 13 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 14 | Budapest Radio said several people were killed at a demonstration in the Transylvanian town of Tirgu Mures yesterday . |
| 15 | The coxswain and the quartermaster were killed at the wheel , and Nigel Tibbets took the helm . |
| 16 | 1955 Eighty two spectators were killed at the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 19 | It was noted that both women were killed on the night of a full moon , as were Gore 's parents . |
| 20 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 21 | Although there are around 13,000 hospital admissions in the UK annually due to playground accidents , fatalities are very rare , whereas in 1988 , 282 children were killed on the roads . |
| 22 | Christopher Tucker shouted into the kitchens asking if animals were killed on the premises . |
| 23 | Two Ulster Defence Regiment men were killed on the Killylea road in Armagh . |
| 24 | A total of 255 servicemen were killed for the recapture of The Malvinas . |
| 25 | Thousands of these small fish were killed for the pearl trade . |
| 26 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |