Example sentences of "damage [was/were] do [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 But when asked by the coroner is it the obvious conclusion that the damage was done by the forceps … he answered probably yes .
9 The damage was done in a storm 6 weeks ago …
10 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 .
11 But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness .
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