1.   The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.

2.   The storm caused heavy damage to the building.

3.   The city sustained heavy damage during the war.

4.   Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation, and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages.

5.   The media have a right to publish defamatory remarks at the risk of paying heavy damages if they cannot subsequently be justified.

6.   And we went to Dubrovnik, Croatia, a lovely medieval port that is being rebuilt after heavy damage during the war.

7.   Any car or other family vehicle hit by an Excursion is still likely to suffer heavy damage.

8.   Antiguan tourism officials acknowledge that hotels like Trade Winds, Runaway Beach and Galley Bay suffered heavy damage and will not reopen until at least next summer.

9.   As the heart of the storm moved into Massachuetts early last night, authorities feared flooding along Cape Cod and the southern shoreline and prepared for heavy damage.

10.   As with the last one, it was close to the surface and so appeared to cause heavy damage close to its epicenter.