Example sentences of "been hit by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 2 | This was the road where the bagpipes had been hit by a piece of shrapnel . |
| 3 | A cottage across from the farm had been hit by a shell and was burning fiercely . |
| 4 | He had been hit by a new wave of depression . |
| 5 | It is the second time in recent months that the Finnish currency has been hit by a crisis of confidence . |
| 6 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Both offices have been hit by a combination of an increasingly complex type of enquiry and by greater demands on volunteers and salaried staff . |
| 8 | Has Anderson ever been hit by a golf ball ? |
| 9 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 10 | The former Arsenal midfielder has been hit by a succession of injuries since his £1.5 million move to Merseyside and recent speculation has centred on his Anfield future . |
| 11 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 12 | After a chance conversation with an American military policeman , Dr West concluded that Lewis had probably been hit by a ‘ karate blow ’ with the heel of the hand to the base of the nose . |
| 13 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 14 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 15 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 16 | There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel . |
| 17 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 18 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 19 | It 's been hit by a dose of fly spray ! |
| 20 | No walker has yet been hit by a bike on Snowdon but last year a cyclist was killed in Gwynedd by a motorist fiddling with his radio . |
| 21 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 22 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 23 | ‘ You told Tyler Beck you 'd been hit by a truck . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd been hit by a car three weeks before , and he had a broken arm and pelvis . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 26 | This random sample will cover more than 10pc of the population of the inner city area which has been hit by a number of social and economic problems . |
| 27 | But the greatest drop of all is in the value of large limousines and executive expresses , which have been hit by a number of factors — not merely the recession . |
| 28 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 29 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 30 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |