Example sentences of "[be] [adv] damaging to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 2 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 3 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 4 | There will be no compromise between safety and commercial motivation , but occasionally the divulging of information might be commercially damaging to the business involved . |
| 5 | The proposals of the Labour party , and some of the proposals in the Maastricht social protocol , would be deeply damaging to the industry . |
| 6 | Let us deal with the suggestion that it would be psychologically damaging to the country to show that the House condones homosexuality . |
| 7 | Though no-one has been injured , the incidents are potentially damaging to the SNP which has not ruled out civil disobedience as part of its campaign against water privatisation . |
| 8 | Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family . |
| 9 | Such a story would have been heavily damaging to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party as it was pledged to end such speculation . |
| 10 | But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas . |
| 11 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 12 | Masturbation is undoubtedly damaging to the health . |
| 13 | But the inspector has upheld the council 's view that the range is visually damaging to the area . |
| 14 | Mr Nick Major , the company 's pig feed marketing manager , said : ‘ It is this nitrogen , when converted to nitrate microbes in the soil , which is potentially damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 15 | U/V light is potentially damaging to the eyes , and you should never look directly at a lit-up tube . |
| 16 | Unlike methanogenesis , however , the product is not a harmless gut , but is highly toxic hydrogen sulphide , an agent that is potentially damaging to the colonic epithelium . |
| 17 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 18 | Whatever the truth , it is seriously damaging to the Crown . |
| 19 | He considered it was potentially damaging to the children to be at the Hearing , and , besides , the case of Proof before the Sheriff was still pending . |
| 20 | Gaunt , on the other hand , lent his weight to the policy of negotiating a settlement with France , perhaps in the hope that a peace or lengthy truce would reduce the financial pressure which was politically damaging to the crown . |