Example sentences of "to damage by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has also been a breakthrough in the breeding of soya beans ( 126 million acres are grown annually worldwide ) where resistance to damage by glyphosate has been genetically incorporated . |
| 2 | The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices . |
| 3 | Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " . |
| 4 | Though widely distributed across the Arctic , and included among the northernmost of all vegetation , vascular plants are readily susceptible to damage by wind and frost . |
| 5 | In designing artificial defences the structures are made sufficiently strong to resist this type of wave , so that one might , therefore , expect closely jointed rocks to be susceptible to damage by clapotis as such rocks are the nearest approach to natural walls . |