Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been hit [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments .
2 It 's not the first time Milton Keynes has been hit by firebombers .
3 In the gunbattles yesterday , Col Peck said a number of relief agency offices and residences in central Mogadishu had been hit by bullets and what he called ‘ ballistic fallout ’ .
4 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 .
5 The North has been hit by changes in the British economy ; changes which were already apparent before the Conservatives took office , but which accelerated during the 1980s .
6 The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields .
7 Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup …
8 He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms .
9 GUNS N' ROSES ' bass player Duff McKagan has been hit with a $20 million dollar suit after allegedly assaulting financier Rodolfo Curbelo .
10 Utility player John Moore has been hit by yet another injury blow .
11 Sharon had been hit in the stomach adn was beeding heavilly .
12 But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years .
13 But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession , the signs are there , fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend .
14 Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast .
15 Sometimes when Tuffers has been hit for four , he has immediately asked for a fielder to be moved to plug the gap .
16 It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid .
17 It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid .
18 Unable to resolve the mess generated by the $6 billion , court-mandated harbour clean-up , Massachusetts has been hit with a ban on nearly all new sewer connections in the Boston area .
19 Abroad the Americans were bombing in Vietnam , Hanoi had been hit by American fighters .
20 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 .
21 MIDDLESBROUGH have been hit by injuries as they prepare to concentrate on their Second Division promotion challenge .
22 It 's the first time the Rectory Farm at Stanton St John has been hit by strawberry rustlers .
23 WALES have been hit by an injury crisis before their rugby league international with England at Swansea .
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