Example sentences of "[was/were] shot [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Police officers were shot dead in Irún on Sept. 29 , in San Sebastián on Oct. 6 , and near Bilbao on Nov. 6 . |
| 32 | Two Army officers were shot dead in central Madrid on July 19 and their driver was seriously wounded . |
| 33 | Sir Peter , who relinquished the post of Governor on Dec. 1 , 1989 [ see p. 37592 ] , had been in office in March 1988 when three members of the IRA were shot dead by British security forces [ see p. 36236 ] , and a statement issued by the Irish republican party Sinn Féin on Sept. 19 accused him of being " directly responsible " for the death of the three . |
| 34 | In the raid on the village of Palatna on Sept. 13 two young Albanian men were shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with police . |
| 35 | The government of New Zealand announced an immediate review of the country 's gun laws after 13 of the inhabitants of the tiny village of Aramoana , near Dunedin , South Island , were shot dead within the space of 24 hours by a man with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle . |
| 36 | Two elderly Palestinians were shot dead on Nov. 6 near the West Bank town of Nablus in an apparent act of revenge for Kahane 's assassination . |
| 37 | Four Pakistanis hijacked a Singapore Airlines Airbus while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur , the Malaysian capital , to Singapore on March 26 , but were shot dead by commandos in Singapore on March 27 after eight hours of negotiations . |
| 38 | In the most serious incident four Georgians were reportedly doused with petrol and burned alive by Ossetes after being ambushed outside Tskhinvali ; another three Georgians were shot dead by USSR Interior Ministry troops whom they had attempted to ambush . |
| 39 | Two young women and a man were shot dead in a mobile grocery shop in a predominantly Catholic estate on the outskirts of Craigavon in County Armagh on March 28 . |
| 40 | Crowds fought with armed troops in successive incidents in Lomé and elsewhere ; teargas was used and several demonstrators were shot dead . |
| 41 | Two school pupils were shot dead in Lomé on April 5 . |
| 42 | A tribal chief and another civilian were shot dead in demonstrations at Kévé , 50 km north-west of the capital on April 8 . |
| 43 | Three people were shot dead by police , including local DP leader Arben Broxhi , who was reportedly shot in the back as he tried to calm the rioters ; a fourth person died of bullet wounds in hospital on April 4 . |
| 44 | On May 20 two radio journalists were shot dead in Florencia , in the south of the country , as they drove to work . |
| 45 | Nine peasant farmers were shot dead by armed men hired by landowners in land disputes in May 1991 ; the military were reported to be implicated . |
| 46 | Six Lithuanian border guards were shot dead at a border post at Medininkai on July 31 . |
| 47 | A judicial report into the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount massacre of October 1990 [ see pp. 37759-60 ] directly contradicted the government 's account of the affair , blaming police incompetence and not Arab provocation for the violence in which 17 Palestinians were shot dead and over 100 others were injured . |
| 48 | Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli army patrols on the West Bank and a man and woman were killed in Gaza allegedly for collaboration with the Israeli authorities . |
| 49 | Three people were shot dead and 10 wounded in Caracas on Nov. 20 , prompting the suspension of school and university classes . |
| 50 | Two Roman Catholics and a Protestant were shot dead on Nov. 15-16 as they left the factory where they worked in Craigavon , south west of Belfast . |
| 51 | In August 1990 two Buddhist monks were shot dead by soldiers at an anti-government demonstration in Mandalay . |
| 52 | Three Protestants and two Catholics were shot dead on the weekend of Dec. 21-22 alone . |
| 53 | On Jan. 10 , three Interior Ministry officers were shot dead and a fourth wounded during an unsuccessful attempt by several Cubans to flee the country by stealing a boat from the Tarara naval base in Habana del Este . |
| 54 | Four Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israeli security forces were shot dead and their bodies dumped near the West Bank village of Kafr Rai on Jan. 26 . |
| 55 | Four members of the IRA were shot dead by soldiers on Feb. 16 after an attack on a police station at Coalisland ; another two men were injured . |
| 56 | In Bogotá a bomb killed one person and injured two more , and elsewhere a municipal council candidate and an electoral registration worker were shot dead . |
| 57 | In a further six-hour operation by security forces in five villages on June 24 , 300 people were held for questioning , and two people were shot dead on June 26 . |
| 58 | On Oct. 19 a police commissioner and his wife and son were shot dead . |
| 59 | Three ethnic Albanians and a Macedonian were shot dead by police and 23 were injured in riots in Skopje on Nov. 6 . |
| 60 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |