Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] damaging " 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 | It should be borne in mind , however , that some approaches , used without proper consideration of the issues involved , may be distressing or even damaging . |
| 3 | In 1988 and 1989 the Public divisions between the Prime Minister and her Chancellor were Politically and economically damaging . |
| 4 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons , which are some of the most persistent and environmentally damaging of the industrial chemicals , and the industrial organochlorides known as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are particularly soluble in fatty tissues . |
| 5 | However , organisations like the Council for the Protection of Rural England are likely to remain opposed to further rural housing development which it sees as both socially and environmentally damaging . |
| 6 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 7 | The offence of causing death by reckless driving carries a maximum of five years , manslaughter carries a maximum of life , and deliberately damaging a vehicle carries a maximum of 10 years . |
| 8 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 9 | Soot-contaminated snow falling in mountainous regions may have darkened snowfields causing the spring snowmelt to be earlier and quicker than usual , leading to river flooding and ecologically damaging acidic meltwater pulses . |
| 10 | For the non-abusing mothers of abused children , child protection procedures are distressing and sometimes damaging . |
| 11 | While the climatic conditions in any given market can readily be found from published data , the temperature and humidity conditions to which a product may be subjected during shipment to that market are largely unknown ; they may be very sever and potentially damaging . |
| 12 | The distinction between education and training became increasingly confused and potentially damaging in the early 1980s . |
| 13 | Helping these children to adapt to their environment is therefore important , and putting their symptoms down to poor mothering , without any evidence , is irresponsible and potentially damaging . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | This may be an acceptable technique for reading science fiction or a romantic novel , but for the study of important texts it is not only inappropriate , but also damaging to study and uneconomic of time . |
| 18 | The fact , therefore , that much of art education is concerned with a direct pupil/teacher interaction , in which informal discussions about problems , and their possible resolution , establishes a crucial but essentially informal kind of diagnostic assessment , means that many art teachers view any externally imposed structure upon this process as not only irrelevant , but potentially damaging to that very quality of personal involvement and development that characterizes good work . |