Example sentences of "damage [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage .
2 Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use .
3 The damage being done to the education system does not benefit anyone and certainly not the youngsters . ’
4 This may result in permanent damage being done to the previously friendly atmosphere of the classroom .
5 I think that they , you know , i i i i if there is da damage being done to the bridge , then we 've got to somehow address that in a different way .
6 By then the Government might be more receptive to financing new nuclear build because of increasing awareness of the damage being done to the environment by ‘ greenhouse ’ gases and acid rain .
7 The incident has been highlighted by the Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) as an example of the damage being done by the worldwide trade in wild birds .
8 The sexual act does violate the child , but the real damage is done to the psyche , wherein lies the trauma — the memory , the damage to self esteem .
9 It is when the claim to neutrality is seen , as it must be , as a sham that damage is done to the judicial system .
10 The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do .
11 ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’
12 It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out !
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 But when asked by the coroner is it the obvious conclusion that the damage was done by the forceps … he answered probably yes .
20 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 .
21 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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