Example sentences of "[been] hit by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 2 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 3 | He had been hit by a new wave of depression . |
| 4 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |