Example sentences of "[be] wipe out by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palestinian camps are wiped out by the Jordanian army . |
| 2 | No doubt half the population of Paris could have been wiped out by a typhoid epidemic in 1788 , and perhaps the king would not then have been sent to the guillotine . |
| 3 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |
| 4 | These achievements have not been wiped out by the past year . |
| 5 | Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought . |
| 6 | Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate . |
| 7 | This will make it much less likely that the entire human race will be wiped out by a calamity such as a nuclear war . |
| 8 | If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure , the species will be wiped out by a rival . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 11 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |
| 12 | WHEN smallpox was wiped out by a campaign led by the World Health Organisation , the campaigners were fortunate in that smallpox vaccine remains effective even when stored at relatively uncontrolled temperatures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ There was this village , it was wiped out by the plague , no one was left except the priest . |
| 15 | And then , finally , out of sight but only fifty or sixty yards from this room in the field next the garden , there lies buried the main street of the old village that was wiped out by the Black Death . |
| 16 | ‘ Many centuries ago , a Roman Army was wiped out by the Goths at Adrianopolis . |