Example sentences of "[was/were] shot [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that no less than five new endings were shot due to poor reaction at the preview screenings hardly augers well . |
| 2 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 3 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 4 | In Medellin , two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen . |
| 5 | The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat . |
| 6 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 7 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 8 | Customs officers were shot dead in open conflict or ambush , an armed gang openly terrorised Rye in August 1747 and informers were beaten up or kidnapped . |
| 9 | Four of the Israelis were shot dead in the past week . |
| 10 | Another three , including a grandmother , were shot dead in their beds , the corpses dragged outside and chopped up . |
| 11 | Mrs Proetta , 50 , was the central figure in an ITV documentary in which she claimed that three IRA terrorists there were shot dead in cold blood by the SAS in 1988 . |
| 12 | YAKUP KARA : The mayor of the village Hilal in the province of Hakkari , on 28 June 1992 he and four villager were shot dead and their bodies burned by three people in commando uniform and balaclavas , according to Mehmet Kara , the sole survivor . |
| 13 | On 18 August 1991 Antonio Palacios Urrea , three of his children and his son-in-law were shot dead by soldiers in their home on the outskirts of Fusagasugá , Cundinamarca department . |
| 14 | Karen Reilly , 18 , and Martin Peake , 17 , were shot dead in Northern Ireland in September 1990 while driving a stolen car . |
| 15 | Hundreds of civilians were shot dead in the streets by Iraqi forces or executed by firing squads . |
| 16 | Ultimately , the Riot Act was read and a number of people were shot dead at North Sands . |
| 17 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 18 | Later , three prisoners , including a strike leader , were shot dead ‘ while attempting to escape ’ . |
| 19 | Ten people were shot dead ( seven of them guards ) . |
| 20 | In October , two women were shot dead by the Army for touring the Lower Falls with a siren , warning inhabitants of imminent raids . |
| 21 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 22 | On 6 March 1988 , three IRA members were shot dead in Gibraltar by plain-clothed British Special Air Service ( SAS ) officers . |
| 23 | About 27 January 1945 , shortly after their return to Ravensbrück , all three were shot dead . |
| 24 | The first deaths occurred on Jan. 27 , when ( according to unofficial reports ) at least nine Albanians were shot dead during clashes with police in the towns of Orahovac and Djakovica . |
| 25 | At least four demonstrators were shot dead by police on Jan. 28 at Suva Reka , and on Jan. 29-31 another 13 people , including one police officer , died in clashes in various locations . |
| 26 | On Jan. 13 three men were shot dead by two soldiers in plain clothes as they attempted to rob a betting shop in Falls Road , west Belfast . |
| 27 | Rioting also broke out on the West Bank , where two Palestinians were shot dead , and in Nazareth and other towns within the pre-1967 " green line " . |
| 28 | Since October 1987 the NPA had killed at least 10 US military personnel , the most recent attack occurring on May 13 when two US airmen were shot dead outside Clark Field . |
| 29 | In an exchange of fire , six Armenian militants were shot dead , and 10 servicemen and a passer-by were injured . |
| 30 | Armed members of the breakaway group New Islamic Jihad seized control of the nearby town of Mansheit Al Kahk , but were overpowered by police on April 30 , when 15 of them were shot dead . |