Example sentences of "been hit by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has also been hit by the lack of new products to draw shoppers into its stores and the failure of satellite TV to take off as hoped . |
| 3 | ‘ A number of hospitals have had problems because of the nurses that have been hit by the epidemic . |
| 4 | But it is still a very large sum indeed , which may be viewed with some in credulity by the millions of lower paid people who have been hit by the Government 's attitudes on , for example , child benefits . |
| 5 | Generally less well-educated than other ethnic groups , and more likely to lack jobs and live in grim houses , Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have been hit by the closure of run-down Bradford mills and ancient Birmingham factories . |
| 6 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 7 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 8 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 9 | But Mr. Dean said : ‘ Like many businesses in the leisure industry , we have been hit by the recession . |
| 10 | Also firms with town centre premises have been hit by the uniform business rate and 1990 rating revaluation . |
| 11 | Only Eve , who had been hit by the moving car , was seriously hurt and even Eve would be out of hospital in a week . |
| 12 | A TOWN with one of the worst unemployment figures in East Anglia has been hit by the loss of 21 more jobs , while 30 posts are being axed by a major drugs firm . |
| 13 | To back the claim up one soldier was assaulted to make it appear he had been hit by the car . |
| 14 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been hit by the recession like everyone else . ’ |
| 16 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 17 | Kermit Weeks ' storage and restoration complex nearby has also supposedly been hit by the hurricane , with the prospect of more aircraft being damaged . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has been hit by the backwash of Amdahl Corp 's warning , and Moody 's Investors Service Inc has downgraded the long-term debt and related securities of IBM and its financially supported IBM Credit Corp , IBM International Finance NV and IBM Japan Ltd by two notched to single-A-1 from double-A-2 . |
| 19 | In a year when all other parts of the charitable sector have been hit by the drop in disposable income , environmental charities have gone from strength to strength . |
| 20 | By dint of demanding £25,000 deposits up front , AML 's order-book has not been hit by the '90s recession or the Gulf War ( some 30% of Aston Martins go to Arabic buyers ) , but some more permanent answer is clearly needed . |
| 21 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 22 | Book Tokens ' income had also been hit by the reduction in interest rates . |
| 23 | Is the Secretary of State aware that millions of people have been hit by the actions of his Department over the past 12 years ? |
| 24 | They have been hit by the present Government , under whom the tax burden has increased . |
| 25 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 26 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 27 | Town of course have been hit by the big freeze … this is their first game in a fortnight |
| 28 | These latest jobs cuts come just after another Gloucestershire firm , smiths industries , announced it too had been hit by the slump in the aircraft industry , shedding three hundred jobs . |
| 29 | But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession , the signs are there , fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend . |
| 30 | It 's the more exotic cars that have been hit by the recession , the cars which are still used on the road have not been hit . |