Example sentences of "[to-vb] been kill [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |