Example sentences of "be wiped out by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought . |
| 2 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |
| 3 | SHEEP farming in two Borders valleys could be wiped out by the end of the decade , with holdings covered in commercial forestry , a group campaigning to protect the open hills forecast yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ There was this village , it was wiped out by the plague , no one was left except the priest . |
| 5 | ‘ Many centuries ago , a Roman Army was wiped out by the Goths at Adrianopolis . |
| 6 | A sober and numbing Inside Story ( BBC 1 ) , ‘ The Forgotten Holocaust ’ related how the gypsy population of Europe , like that of the Jews , was wiped out by the Nazis . |