Example sentences of "to have [been] killed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 2 | Nine soldiers and 15 guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) ( both factions of the National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNG ) — see p. 34803 ) were reported to have been killed on Nov. 10 in two separate attacks staged by an estimated 400 guerrillas against the towns of Tazara and Cacares in Antioquia province . |
| 3 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 4 | He is thought to have been killed with a high-powered long-range rifle , possibly an American-made Barrett ( Light Fifty ) which has a range of up to 1,800 metres and fires half-inch rounds . |
| 5 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 6 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 7 | Other prominent Sendero members , also officially said to have been killed during the fighting , included Tito Travesano Valle , Yovanka Trujillo Pardave and Deodato Cruzatt Juárez . |
| 8 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 9 | Indeed several attempts were made on her life , until finally one day she was found dead on the rocks , thought to have been killed by gelignite . |
| 10 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 11 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 12 | Abroad three foreign journalists including a Briton are reported to have been killed by sniper fire in the Somali capital Mogadishou . |
| 13 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 14 | In the space of two days — Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 — at least 600 people were reliably estimated to have been killed by the army and police and in succeeding days more killings and arrests were reported as troops raided premises , principally in Port-au Prince , in search of troops loyal to Aristide . |
| 15 | It is consequently being officially recorded that Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , is presumed to have been killed in action on the 17th of June 1944 . |
| 16 | Seven million dolphins are estimated to have been killed in the eastern tropical area of the Pacific since the 1950s . |
| 17 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 18 | Oscar Mariano Ospina , the alleged " treasurer " of the Medellín cartel , was reported to have been killed in Medellín by an elite police corps on May 4 , along with seven others . |
| 19 | The murders by the drug cartels of two federal judges , Héctor Jiménez Rodriguez and Mariela Espinoza Arango , in Medellín on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 , 1989 , respectively , and that of court summoner Guillermo Mena Lozano on Nov. 1 in Cali provoked a 13-day strike beginning on Nov. 2 of judges and court workers which paralysed the judicial system nationwide ( 350 judicial employees and 50 judges were estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Five people were reported to have been killed in disturbances during the second round . |
| 21 | Based on Iraq 's own admission [ see above ] it was believed that the air war might have killed 20,000 ( of whom an estimated 1,000 were civilians ) , while a further 15,000 troops were thought to have been killed in the ground campaign . |
| 22 | More than 100 people were thought to have been killed in faction fighting in Natal and in townships around Johannesburg during March , mostly between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha but also involving the security forces . |
| 23 | Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day . |
| 24 | Clashes also continued within Turkey itself during this period , and some 40 people were reported to have been killed in separate incidents , the worst of these occurring on Aug. 16 when 14 Kurds and five troops and police died as demonstrations broke out to mark the eighth anniversary of the separatist rebellions of 1983 [ see pp. 33037-38 ] . |
| 25 | By the end of April over 30 people were reported to have been killed in the violence and many hundreds injured or arrested . |
| 26 | Amid allegations in early June that rebels loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor were obstructing the deployment of peacekeeping troops of the Economic Community of West Africa States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , six Senegalese ECOMOG soldiers were reported to have been killed in NPFL-held territory . |
| 27 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 28 | As of mid-November more than 70 people were reported to have been killed in violence associated with Islamic militants during 1992 . |
| 29 | Up to ten thousand people are known to have been killed in the earthquake which struck India . |