Example sentences of "[adv] damaging to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 2 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 3 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 4 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 5 | This was an entirely false statement , obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician . |
| 6 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 7 | Public opinion would demand that schoolchildren be moved to safe areas ; a serious raid on a school would be highly damaging to morale . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Britain simply can not afford anomalies that are so damaging to one of its strategic manufacturing industries , to its balance of payments , not to mention tax revenue . |
| 11 | There will be no compromise between safety and commercial motivation , but occasionally the divulging of information might be commercially damaging to the business involved . |
| 12 | The whole idea of large hospitals for the mentally handicapped is indefensible : there is evidence that many patients do not need , and do not receive , treatment , and a hospital routine is wholly damaging to them . |
| 13 | But the Prime Minister has declared that that would be unacceptably damaging to us . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas . |
| 16 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 17 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 18 | Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family . |
| 19 | , 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that Labour 's proposals for a national minimum wage may seem superficially attractive but would be deeply damaging to business , particularly small business , and to job prospects ? |
| 22 | The proposals of the Labour party , and some of the proposals in the Maastricht social protocol , would be deeply damaging to the industry . |
| 23 | Will he please take the most urgent steps to correct that , because it is not only deeply damaging to companies in my constituency but harmful to the image of the Community ? |
| 24 | Does he also agree , then , that the philosophy behind the TECs is , in the words of the hon. Member for Fife , Central , ’ deeply damaging to the long-term need of this country ’ ? |
| 25 | As we know , however , from the evidence contained in yesterday 's autumn statement , the recession has been deeply damaging to Britain 's economy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 28 | The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards . |
| 29 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |