Example sentences of "doing [adj] damage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as wild boar running free and doing untold damage to the countryside , as in Italy , France and Germany ; but as farmed wild boar which should ease your mind , even if it causes the farmers untold headaches . |
| 2 | And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And he ended by warning her that the stories being published were doing untold damage to the Royal Family — and she should be aware that she was to blame . ’ |
| 4 | When Jack Kevorkian helps people to commit suicide he could be doing grave damage to the Hippocratic oath . |
| 5 | Two cars managed to avoid him , but Roberto Moreno , holding a steady fourth in the Benetton , ran straight into the front of the Williams , doing serious damage to both . |
| 6 | Much more rarely , Candida can invade the eye , kidney , liver or brain , doing serious damage . |
| 7 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) The offences referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question , of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any woman therein , and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein . |
| 9 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 10 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 11 | They are , however , capable of doing substantial damage to other corals placed too close to them , even for short periods . |
| 12 | ‘ If the NASUWT goes ahead with its threats of boycotting all tests at all levels this summer it will be doing terrible damage to children , it will cause enormous distress and concern to parents and it will damage the professional standing and status of teachers , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He marched south to destroy the royal army rather than waste his time in taking castles ; the king came westwards from Tonbridge and Battle , doing considerable damage en route . |
| 14 | where the goods are perishable or are doing considerable damage to the land and it is impossible to communicate speedily enough with the occupier or his agent ) . |
| 15 | Coming down to children er , are doing wilful damage and er graffiti and all this sort of thing . |
| 16 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 17 | It is , obviously , extremely easy to get stereotyped in layout : it is the art director 's job to avoid this , without doing excessive damage to the way the reader will want to take in the ad . |
| 18 | Simply parking the trailer with the stands firmly down will not prevent really strong winds from doing irreparable damage . |
| 19 | On the other hand they may be a serious indication that man is — as many people insist — doing irreparable damage to our own fuglicaa , the earth . |
| 20 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 21 | If we do not begin to address the problem , we shall be doing irreparable damage to our political profession , which I greatly respect . |