Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] damaging [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 4 | The distinction between education and training became increasingly confused and potentially damaging in the early 1980s . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |