Example sentences of "[adv] damaging to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
2 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
3 | In addition to the foul stench it produces , it is also damaging to sensitive mucous membranes . |
4 | I believe that , if we are not participants in it , it will be severely damaging to inward investment . |
5 | There must be a limit beyond which expenditure on the social and public services is detrimental to economic growth ; there is , however , a corresponding point below which social service expenditure is equally damaging to economic development . |
6 | The editorial , ‘ The principles of restructuring : the revolutionary nature of thinking and acting ’ , 'insisted that there was ‘ no alternative to perestroika ’ and that even its postponement would be gravely damaging to Soviet society and to socialism internationally . |