Example sentences of "wiped out by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 3 | Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This will make it much less likely that the entire human race will be wiped out by a calamity such as a nuclear war . |
| 6 | If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure , the species will be wiped out by a rival . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A court heard emotional evidence from many elderly investors whose life savings had been wiped out by the fraud . |
| 9 | These survived until about 8000 years ago , when they were probably wiped out by the first human settlers . |
| 10 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 11 | These achievements have not been wiped out by the past year . |
| 12 | ‘ There was this village , it was wiped out by the plague , no one was left except the priest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 15 | Palestinian camps are wiped out by the Jordanian army . |
| 16 | ‘ Many centuries ago , a Roman Army was wiped out by the Goths at Adrianopolis . |
| 17 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |
| 18 | Much of the vegetation on which the animals depend has been wiped out by the drought . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |