Example sentences of "[verb] been hit by " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's the first time the Rectory Farm at Stanton St John has been hit by strawberry rustlers . |
| 32 | It 's not the first time Milton Keynes has been hit by firebombers . |
| 33 | Swindon 's Wyvern Theatre has been hit by falling ticket sales . |
| 34 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 35 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 36 | But Swindon Town 's promotion drive has been hit by the big freeze … |
| 37 | Utility player John Moore has been hit by yet another injury blow . |
| 38 | Michael Appleby , joint administrative receiver of Sunderland accountant Latham Crossley & Davis said the company has been hit by the reduction of public spending on luxury goods . |
| 39 | THE Evert Cup tournament in Indian Wells , California , has been hit by the loss of top seeds , Steffi Graf and Jennifer Capriati , who both withdrew because of pulled stomach muscles . |
| 40 | THE Evert Cup tournament in Indian Wells , California , has been hit by the loss of top seeds , Steffi Graf and Jennifer Capriati , due to pulled stomach muscles . |
| 41 | The City has been hit by hi-tech , probably more than other employment sectors . ’ |
| 42 | He also criticised European support for the Airbus project during a West Coast tour which included areas hit by lay-offs announced by Boeing , which has been hit by fierce competition for sales in the world aircraft market . |
| 43 | Here , Pip has realised what a disaster he is and he has been hit by hard consequences as a result of his greediness . |
| 44 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 45 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 46 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 47 | ‘ You told Tyler Beck you 'd been hit by a truck . ’ |
| 48 | He 'd been hit by a car three weeks before , and he had a broken arm and pelvis . |
| 49 | He could even have been hit by a car . |
| 50 | He must have been hit by a stone . |
| 51 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 52 | Georg Latzelberger , was destroyed in a forced-landing having been hit by both fighters and A.A. fire . |
| 53 | ‘ Mr Baines received minor injuries having been hit by his wife with an artificial tree , ’ he said . |
| 54 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 55 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 56 | Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot . |
| 57 | This was the road where the bagpipes had been hit by a piece of shrapnel . |
| 58 | A cottage across from the farm had been hit by a shell and was burning fiercely . |
| 59 | He had been hit by a new wave of depression . |
| 60 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |