Example sentences of "[be] [adv] damaging [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 3 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 4 | There will be no compromise between safety and commercial motivation , but occasionally the divulging of information might be commercially damaging to the business involved . |
| 5 | The proposals of the Labour party , and some of the proposals in the Maastricht social protocol , would be deeply damaging to the industry . |
| 6 | Let us deal with the suggestion that it would be psychologically damaging to the country to show that the House condones homosexuality . |
| 7 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |
| 8 | But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas . |
| 9 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 10 | Masturbation is undoubtedly damaging to the health . |
| 11 | But the inspector has upheld the council 's view that the range is visually damaging to the area . |
| 12 | Mr Nick Major , the company 's pig feed marketing manager , said : ‘ It is this nitrogen , when converted to nitrate microbes in the soil , which is potentially damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 13 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 14 | Whatever the truth , it is seriously damaging to the Crown . |
| 15 | Gaunt , on the other hand , lent his weight to the policy of negotiating a settlement with France , perhaps in the hope that a peace or lengthy truce would reduce the financial pressure which was politically damaging to the crown . |