Example sentences of "[be] shot [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Israeli reservists are shot dead in Gaza City . |
| 2 | Seven Gaza labourers are shot dead by a deranged Israeli gunman at Rishon Le Zion ; the killings prompt some of the most intense rioting of the intifada . |
| 3 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 4 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 5 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 6 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 7 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 8 | Chata , their chief , had been shot dead by a bank guard in Wyoming during an attempted hold-up . |
| 9 | A Shia cleric , an enemy of the regime , had been shot dead in a hotel lobby in Khartoum . |
| 10 | Two Irish policemen had been shot dead at Soloheadbeg last Tuesday by fellow Irishmen : it looked as if Joseph Hyde 's prediction about Civil War might become a reality all too soon . |
| 11 | Though critical of the fact that four civilians had been shot dead without conceivable justification , the document generally endorsed the Army 's version of events and , in the press view , completely exonerated the paratroops ( Curtis , 1984:50 ) . |
| 12 | In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | Micky Banks had been shot dead on stage . |
| 14 | Some have been shot dead at their office desks . |
| 15 | Bull had been shot dead in Brussels on March 22 , 1990 , and according to some reports Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had been involved in the assassination . |
| 16 | Up to 24 demonstrators had been shot dead and another 30 had been wounded , while seven others had later been executed . |
| 17 | Witnesses , however , claimed that the six had been shot dead by security forces . |
| 18 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 19 | Other reports stated that 41 Hawiye civilians had been shot dead following the Army takeover of the town of Adado from United Somali Congress guerrillas . |
| 20 | The Ministry of the Interior announced on Oct. 30 that eight members of the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , arrested on Oct. 27 in possession of arms and forged documents , were responsible for the assassination ; two others had been shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 21 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 22 | In October it was reported that Max Veillard , a French mercenary and adviser to Taki wanted for his part in the August coup attempt , had been shot dead by police . |
| 23 | His predecessor , Expedito Ribeiro de Souza , had been shot dead on Feb. 2 ; police arrested a suspect who claimed that he had been hired by a local landowner to carry out the killing . |
| 24 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 25 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 23 , quoting the Reuters news agency , said that more than 1,500 people had been shot dead since 1986 in Karachi alone . |
| 26 | Astrel Charles , an opposition parliamentary deputy , was reported on Dec. 18 by the Caribbean news agency Trans World Radio ( Bonair ) to have been shot dead by a rural official who had demanded that Charles end a meeting with his constituents . |
| 27 | On May 12 the director of the Lima morgue showed reporters the bodies of 36 people whose autopsies apparently showed that they had been shot dead after the siege had finished . |
| 28 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
| 29 | Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 30 | The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S. |