Example sentences of "be damaging to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report 's contents are not expected to be damaging to the government . |
| 2 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 3 | It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff . |
| 4 | New owners may have fewer qualms than long-serving managers about taking action of this kind which is likely to be damaging to the company 's employees and the wider host community . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 6 | Certain pain-killers we use — even something as mild and commonplace as aspirin — can be damaging to the cat . |
| 7 | ‘ Exclusive ’ fostering , where the foster-parents tend to treat the child rather as though he [ or she ] were their own or they had adopted him [ or her ] , is thought to be damaging to the child 's identity , as well as hindering restoration to the natural parents . |
| 8 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 9 | This is likely to be damaging to the workers ( who lose pay ) and the firms involved ( who lose output , sales and profits ) . |
| 10 | Breaking an organization down into smaller units ( work groups ) in order to cope adequately with the diversity of tasks that face it , creates opportunities to develop task interests and special know-how , but , at the same time it also creates rivalries and competing interests which can be damaging to the organization 's mission . |
| 11 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 12 | This isolation may be damaging to the manager . |