Example sentences of "damage [was/were] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 2 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 3 | Fortunately little damage was done to Roles ' Builders Yard , but the Steam Laundry was almost completely destroyed . |
| 4 | At this stage I noticed that two of them were ‘ pairing off ’ and defending a rock at one end of the tank , their main targets being the other chromides , although no damage was done to the ‘ victims ’ . |
| 5 | Substantial damage was done to a ferry boat by 167 Moroccans in Algeciras overnight on April 27-28 ; they were being held on it prior to their repatriation for having failed to meet existing immigration requirements . |
| 6 | Damage was done to the playing surface by the Maltese team who played Scotland last month , and next week the ravages of time , climate and fixture congestion will worsen when Andy Roxburgh 's side play Germany in a friendly . |
| 7 | However , the damage was done at the discontinued line which simply reflects the fact that we had er , Elserver in for two and a half months in nineteen ninety one , as opposed to twelve months the year before . |
| 8 | ‘ A great deal of damage was done during the anti-fascist struggle but the German Democratic Republic is restoring these monuments to art and culture . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from the landless Andeans , the greatest damage was done by cattle ranchers whose clearance of one acre of rainforest would support 0.4 of one cow . |
| 10 | Some of the damage was done by the thousands of casks of rum which were stored in the town , and which exploded in the heat and caught fire immediately . |
| 11 | ’ And then , softly , ‘ And indeed , the damage was done by that time . |
| 12 | But when asked by the coroner is it the obvious conclusion that the damage was done by the forceps … he answered probably yes . |
| 13 | This time round , the damage was done by Billy McPherson and Paul Golden , who scored 11 goals between them . |
| 14 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 15 | But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness . |
| 16 | The damage was done in a storm 6 weeks ago … |