Example sentences of "has [been] [adv] hit by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryan Hotels , the Dublin-based hotel and tour operator , has been badly hit by the downturn in tourism . |
| 2 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 3 | The company , which owns the historic MV Brightlingsea that links Harwich and Felixstowe , has been badly hit by falling passenger levels . |
| 4 | The common view , backed up by hard evidence is that investment has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 5 | The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 . |
| 6 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 7 | The pharmaceuticals business — which was bound to suffer when the US patents expired last year on Tenormin , a beta-blocker and one of the world 's most successful drugs has been further hit by the failure of two products in which a lot of money and hope had been invested . |
| 8 | According to Radio Times , TV Times has been hardest hit by the duopoly 's bust-up ( see chart ) , and it reckons Bauer , TV Quick 's publisher , will keep the price low and continue aggressive promotion until ‘ a significant proportion of readers have taken root in the brand ’ . |
| 9 | Like the rest of Serbia , Kosovo has been hard hit by international sanctions . |
| 10 | The Thai tourist industry , an important foreign currency earner , has been hard hit by media reports of environmental pollution in the main resorts , with criticism focusing on the discharge of untreated sewage into rivers and the sea . |
| 11 | As unemployment climbed above three million for the first time in six years , the latest figures showed our region has been hard hit by the recession . |