Example sentences of "[verb] been hit by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union 's grain harvest has been hit by drought and fuel problems , and there are predictions that the harvest could be between 195 and 200m tonnes , compared with last year 's 218m tonnes . |
| 4 | Mr Ronson , 52 , told a meeting of banks in the City that the privately-owned Heron has been hit by falling property values and the recession . |
| 5 | It is the second time in recent months that the Finnish currency has been hit by a crisis of confidence . |
| 6 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 7 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 8 | Currently the export trade has been hit by lower prices for both steam coal and coking coal but this has not prevented a number of large and expensive development projects aimed at significantly increasing output . |
| 9 | Another project has been hit by insecure MSC Community programme funding . |
| 10 | The former Arsenal midfielder has been hit by a succession of injuries since his £1.5 million move to Merseyside and recent speculation has centred on his Anfield future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 13 | ‘ He has been hit by the recession like everyone else . ’ |
| 14 | The company , which specialises in insuring local authorities , has been hit by £239 million losses after massive claims from town halls . |
| 15 | The company has been hit by falling demand for disk drives with capacities of 120Mb or less , with prices eroding and hitting gross margins . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has been hit by the backwash of Amdahl Corp 's warning , and Moody 's Investors Service Inc has downgraded the long-term debt and related securities of IBM and its financially supported IBM Credit Corp , IBM International Finance NV and IBM Japan Ltd by two notched to single-A-1 from double-A-2 . |
| 17 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 20 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc has been hit by an Australian court award against it ordering it to pay $3.2m to Perfect Information Pty Ltd as damages on its claim it was wrongfully terminated as one of WordStar 's Australian distributors ; WordStar will appeal the ruling , maintaining the plaintiff was never lawfully engaged as a distributor . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This random sample will cover more than 10pc of the population of the inner city area which has been hit by a number of social and economic problems . |
| 23 | GREENCASTLE , on the shores of Lough Foyle , has been hit by an erosion crisis . |
| 24 | The once-thriving motor industry has been hit by steady recession . |
| 25 | The world 's southernmost city , Ushuaia , in Argentina , has been hit by sizeable increases in ultraviolet radiation , caused by the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer . |
| 26 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 27 | But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession , the signs are there , fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend . |
| 28 | A firm which produces smoked fish has been hit by fire . |
| 29 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 30 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |