Example sentences of "[conj] threatening [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 2 | every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening to break the peace refrain from doing so … |
| 3 | We turn in , with the wind picking up even stronger and threatening to blow the lavvu away . |
| 4 | He had reckoned without the mother , however , who started behaving very violently , plunging the house into darkness one night trying to electrocute herself , and threatening to wreck the warehouse where her husband kept his stocks . |
| 5 | One of the unquestionable advantages of the growing use of computers by humanists is that it has done something to bridge the divide between two cultures — scientific and humanist — which many writers have lamented as threatening to fragment the community of scholars and the republic of learning . |