Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] dangerous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , among today 's MPs , the monarchy itself has become a touchy and electorally dangerous topic . |
| 2 | The Standard Five master Sammy Edwards was a quite volatile character much given to boxing his pupils ' ears — not only a painful but also dangerous practice . |
| 3 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 4 | Simply because it does give a numerical score , rather than the subjective impression given by an interview , credit scoring may give a spurious and therefore dangerous impression of accuracy . |
| 5 | Finally , in addition to sorcerers and witches proper , Zande also recognize a related if less dangerous category of malevolent people whom they refer to as ‘ gall-bladder men ’ . |
| 6 | They do a dirty and often dangerous job , but this wild driving should be curtailed before others are killed . |
| 7 | This report describes an intramural haematoma of the oesophagus , a rare but potentially dangerous complication of variceal injection . |
| 8 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 9 | Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately . |
| 10 | In its undigested state , this voluminous competitor information , 90 per cent of which is publicly available , may be vaguely interesting and occasionally intriguing , but however glittering it is essentially an unusable and potentially dangerous resource . |
| 11 | Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals . |
| 12 | It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body . |