Example sentences of "[be] [adv] damaging to [art] [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 But the disclosure is nevertheless damaging to the Government as the lock out of ambulance workers continues towards Christmas .
8 It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated .
9 Masturbation is undoubtedly damaging to the health .
10 But the inspector has upheld the council 's view that the range is visually damaging to the area .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 Whatever the truth , it is seriously damaging to the Crown .
14 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 .
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