Example sentences of "were hit by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales were hit by the drop in retail spending during the first half of 1989 . |
| 2 | Property shares were hit by the Bank of England 's worries about property loans , which revived memories of the 1970s banking and property crash . |
| 3 | We were on a bus , on our way to a concert , when we were hit by a truck . |
| 4 | Motor and engineering margins were hit by relocations , rather than any slackening in demand . |
| 5 | It was , of course , difficult to estimate the extent to which people were hit by these evolving programmes . |
| 6 | They were hit by a northbound train on the London-Edinburgh East Coast mainline at the unmarked Carr Lane crossing at Bessacarr , near Doncaster . |
| 7 | It is trading ahead of this time last year , when sales were hit by the Gulf war , but exports are slowing . |
| 8 | Mr Stephen Hurkett was waiting on the central reservation just behind his wife Lorraine , 26 , and daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , when they were hit by a car driven by Martin Flook , 19 , Bristol Crown Court was told . |
| 9 | Suddenly we were hit by reality . |
| 10 | As we passed Pabbay we were hit by successive heavy squalls ; the promontory toe Head would be out of the question . |
| 11 | In Rotterdam , half of the 5–9 year olds involved in accidents were hit by cars within 200 metres of their homes . |
| 12 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 13 | Famous names such as Barnardo 's , the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Spastics Society were hit by the full force of the recession last year . |
| 14 | ‘ They were hit by glass , but were not seriously injured . |
| 15 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 16 | Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car . |
| 17 | THE Christians came close to splitting up after they were hit by a massive £2 million lawsuit . |
| 18 | Most shares were hit by the Cabinet split over whether Britain should opt in or out of European economic union . |
| 19 | Linda and Andrew were hit by a car less than 200 yards from their home in Blackwater , Hants , on Saturday . |
| 20 | The passengers felt bad enough earlier when they were hit by a regional rail fare rise of more than five per cent . |
| 21 | Linda Wolage , 28 , died after she and her husband Andrew were hit by a Fiesta car at Blackwater , Hants , on September 5 . |
| 22 | There was little on course money for the horse , but betting shops in Yorkshire were hit by a string of late bets , mostly of £30 or £40 . |
| 23 | Two were hit by shrapnel from a mortar bomb at the weekend . |
| 24 | The revelation comes as an oil industry survey claims 84 per cent of forecourts were hit by crime last year . |
| 25 | LIVERPOOL were hit by the own-goal jitters again here last night — but still completed their European tour with a comfortable win . |
| 26 | Betting shops in Hertfordshire , East London and Ireland were hit by trio , doubles and single bets . |
| 27 | The inherent weakness in targeting a specific market , both in terms of type of work and date , became all too apparent when buyers , particularly speculators , were hit by financial and art market recessions . |
| 28 | I found some barges and was busy strafing them when we were hit by 40mm cannon shells . |
| 29 | One moment the Sergeant was screaming at his men to charge hard home , and the next he and his horse were hit by the metal gale of an exploding canister . |
| 30 | Profits at Instem Plc for the year ending December 31 were hit by three of its electronic manufacturing OEM customers going into receivership . |