Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] damaging to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards . |
2 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
3 | The book then looks in some detail at the Reagan energy plan , condemning it as ‘ unbearably expensive , socially disruptive , and needlessly damaging to the long-term national interest ’ . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |