Example sentences of "of damage to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one level , this definition is rather broad ; it refers to threatened acts and the likelihood ( rather than the actuality ) of damage to person or property . |
| 2 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 3 | For both the buyer and the seller this tends to make sense , since it is more efficient for the seller to insure against the risk under an insurance policy covering the risk of damage to goods in transit than for the buyer to cover the goods under an all risks policy relating to his moveable property . |
| 4 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 5 | The other score — of damage to sons , property and livestock — was never calculated , but the injuries sustained were not considered excessive , and everyone agreed that it was one of the best hurling matches they 'd seen in several years . |
| 6 | After a period of exposure to grazing one can then test for the frequency of the various types of damage to clover leaves with the different genotypes and afterwards reconfirm the cyanogenic or acyanogenic status of the plant ( Fig. 16.7 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 8 | ‘ Scandinavians now accept that there is no evidence of damage to forests but they claim that fish lakes and rivers suffer from the additional acidity , ’ said its Annual Report for 1976/7 . |
| 9 | The Independent of Feb. 20 also reported that al-Nouri had estimated that 18 million people were threatened with epidemics of cholera and typhoid because of damage to water and sewage systems . |
| 10 | Flash floods caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to houses after last night 's storms . |
| 11 | The extreme sadist who delights in blood , broken bones and other evidence of damage to tissue could be classed as destructive ; the one whose main delight lies in the screams or pleas of a victim would be dominating . |
| 12 | Fires are reported to be causing huge amounts of damage to Costa Rica 's largest-remaining tracts of forest and nature reserves . |
| 13 | A 200-strong mob caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage to cars and shops during the riot at Scotswood last September . |
| 14 | Their study , based on newspaper accounts across the 6-year period , 1975–81 , refers to 2,598 incidents of violence ; 49 deaths ; 2,732 instances of damage to vehicles ( including tyre damage ) ; the use of 20 tons of TNT explosive ; 182 attacks on buildings or property ; and finally , 133 cases where homes were shot at , firebombed or vandalised . |
| 15 | There were 16 cases of damage to vehicles including £300 damage to a vehicle in Larchfield Street , while paint was sprayed over a vehicle in Rydal Road . |
| 16 | Alternatively , if the company has an unfettered right to spray as many sparks as it likes , there will be plenty of damage to fields . |
| 17 | Hence the emphasis on the dramatic , unexpected and negative , the measurement of the significance of negative events in terms of damage to people and property . |
| 18 | The grounds on which such conditions may be imposed include police perceptions that disorder might otherwise occur , that there exists the possibility of damage to people or property or that the march is likely to intimidate people , or interfere with or disrupt the life of the community . |
| 19 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 20 | WIMBLEDON reserves , the club 's second-string Crazy Gang , were booted out by Southampton after allegedly causing hundreds of pounds of damage to changing rooms . |
| 21 | The costs ran well beyond the realm of damage to assets into damage to reputation , alienation of employees , investigation costs , business interruptions , and replacement of staff . |
| 22 | Re-assessment of damage to infrastructure — Visit by UN mission |
| 23 | INCIDENTS of damage to homes from subsidence caused by drought has risen from 3,000 in 1980 to 100,000 in 1991 . |
| 24 | By this time , clinical neurologists had begun to catalogue the effects of damage to association cortex , describing deficits in speech comprehension , object recognition , and spatial orientation , depending on which part of the brain turned out to be damaged . |
| 25 | In German forests , there was a consistent pattern of damage to Norway spruce , the main species affected , beginning with a yellowing of the upper surface of older needles and progressing to the death of the needle and a marked thinning of the crown of the tree as dead needles dropped off . |
| 26 | They did a great deal of damage to vineyards , roads , bridges and houses and threatened the villages of St Alfio , Fornazzo and Macchia . |
| 27 | Moist air burned holes in people 's vegetables and landowners complained of damage to trees . |
| 28 | Although the FC had yet to conduct a survey , it stated ‘ there is little evidence of damage to trees or forests in Britain from direct pollution and from acid rain . ’ |
| 29 | Safety includes safety in the context of risks of damage to property as well as in the context of risks of death or personal injury . |
| 30 | in respect of damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the person claiming to be indemnified under this Section |