Example sentences of "[prep] a warning to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 2 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 3 | Something of a warning to the rest of us . |
| 4 | ‘ This is more of a warning to clubs that three red cards in as many games will not be tolerated . ’ |
| 5 | Despite a warning to crew members from the Gestapo cell about contravention of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour , sexual activity continued as normal on a cruise . |
| 6 | Thus unease over Soviet conduct in Eastern Europe and further afield did not immediately end Bevin 's search for ways to co-exist with the USSR despite a warning to Attlee on 10 April 1946 that , while he believed the Soviets preferred to expand without the risk of war , their policy might acquire a dynamic of its own , and result in an unintended conflict . |
| 7 | It was clearly intended as a warning to Downing Street . |
| 8 | The Australian 's 61 off 69 balls , at a time when Tim Munton was making other batsmen jump , was of the highest quality and serves as a warning to other sides what awaits them at Chelmsford . |
| 9 | The examples of the behaviour of these men was so outrageous that it served as a warning to many people against this particular vice . |
| 10 | His body was left to rot as a warning to others who might be tempted to stray from those paths of righteousness . |
| 11 | Their heads were impaled on Charles Bridge as a warning to others and their families were sent into exile and their lands given to Ferdinand 's Habsburg supporters , mainly Germans . |
| 12 | Furthermore , should the level of perception of a toxic substance be lower than its TLV , then the odour is in effect acting as a warning to the workforce . |
| 13 | Third , an animal may be brightly coloured as a warning to its enemies that it is not to be trifled with . |
| 14 | One came many hours later after news of the atrocity had been spread by Claverhouse as a warning to the district . |
| 15 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 16 | From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching ! |
| 17 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 18 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 19 | For example , the familiar red triangular sign picturing two running children , internationally accepted as a warning to motorists that they are approaching a school , was interpreted by almost all of a sample of children as being a sign for them to observe , not one for cautioning drivers . |
| 20 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |
| 21 | English country folk once believed these beasts would hover over a house as a warning to the inmates to mend their ways . |
| 22 | But it should serve as a warning to teachers that suggestions from the ‘ fundamental disciplines ’ must be viewed with caution and scepticism . |
| 23 | Finally , the KGB assassinated a dozen members of our group as a warning to the others . |
| 24 | Matthew includes this parable as a warning to the Christian community of his own day . |
| 25 | A game where the Test and County Cricket Board yearns for powers that would allow Allan Lamb to be hung in chains as a warning to all whistleblowers . |
| 26 | In the Museum forecourt is a morticed flagstone , formerly in the High Street , marking the spot where gruesome portions of their quarters were displayed as a warning to the in habitants of Swanage . |
| 27 | This story was recounted as a warning to naughty children . |
| 28 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 29 | The Chinese , even if they were not spies , were certainly not-be trusted , for they were evidently too cowardly to be relied on as stokers to get up sufficient steam to escape German U-boats , which should serve as a warning to " yellow-loving shipowners . " |
| 30 | Profumo unfortunately succumbed to the charms of a Miss Christine Keeler who — casting my mind back — appeared at the time to be an attractive little thing , and whose very appearance could be regarded as a warning to every husband anxious to preserve his marriage . |