Example sentences of "[adv] damaging to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to pay at maturity , would be to say the least , extremely damaging to the bank 's credit rating and would completely destroy confidence in it . |
| 2 | There will be no compromise between safety and commercial motivation , but occasionally the divulging of information might be commercially damaging to the business involved . |
| 3 | But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas . |
| 4 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 5 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 6 | , Swedish scientists have called attention to the large amount of halon gas , hundreds of times more damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs , which was used in the gulf war . |
| 7 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 8 | The proposals of the Labour party , and some of the proposals in the Maastricht social protocol , would be deeply damaging to the industry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards . |
| 11 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 12 | ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal . |
| 13 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 14 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 15 | Let us deal with the suggestion that it would be psychologically damaging to the country to show that the House condones homosexuality . |
| 16 | Masturbation is undoubtedly damaging to the health . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | But the inspector has upheld the council 's view that the range is visually damaging to the area . |
| 19 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Whatever the truth , it is seriously damaging to the Crown . |
| 23 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |