Example sentences of "a threat to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 2 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 3 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 4 | Was not this type of legislation a threat to freedom ? |
| 5 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 6 | The Cairo Summit in 1964 described foreign bases more forcibly as ‘ a threat to freedom and international peace ’ , strongly condemned the ‘ expressed intention of imperialist powers to establish bases in the Indian Ocean ’ , and called upon ‘ all states maintaining troops and bases in other countries to remove them forthwith ’ . |
| 7 | To Rousseau , non-participatory institutions posed a threat to freedom — ; ‘ man is born free and he is everywhere in chains ’ . |
| 8 | Jesus was perceived — justifiably , we maintain — as a threat to Rome , and was executed as such . |
| 9 | Pylons ‘ a threat to road improvements ’ Massive new pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire could jeopardise improvements to the A19 , the Department of Transport has said . |
| 10 | The Department of the Environment has circulated a small leaflet : ‘ How to help prevent it ’ dealing with the winter-time pollution which is such a threat to road usage . |
| 11 | Did he , then , believe that she might present a threat to Rob 's engagement — to a girl he liked and approved of ? |
| 12 | Maybe I should even feel a little flattered that you consider me sufficiently important to be a threat to Rob 's engagement . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I anticipate he will be back to the form he showed in Sweden , and that spells a threat to Italy . ’ |
| 14 | As long as the Government presses on with privatisation there will be a threat to services and a threat of increased fares . |
| 15 | So when the Indians used the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ in South Africa they were immediately considered to be a threat to person and property in the same way as the suffragettes were a threat . |
| 16 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 17 | The government and the church obviously thought we were a threat to society . ’ |
| 18 | Heresy becomes a social solecism , a self-declared exile , as the personal history of Protestant converts amply proves : George Borrow 's Bible peddling was regarded as a threat to society itself or an incomprehensible eccentricity . |
| 19 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |
| 20 | The final communiqué condemned terrorism and said that the rise of religious fundamentalism constituted a threat to society and democracy . |
| 21 | An engineer may be seen as a threat to society when designing a plant which generates toxic waste , but to be protecting society if working on a flood prevention scheme . |
| 22 | This suited the British , especially when pro-Egyptian groups appeared to pose a threat to Jordan in April 1957 . |
| 23 | CHEMICALS which have been found in the River Clyde pose a threat to otters all over Britain , the World Wide Fund For Nature warned this week . |
| 24 | The gradual re-emergence of a strong Japan with an accelerating economy would pose a threat to North Korea and , less directly , to the Soviet Union 's far eastern territories . |
| 25 | If I showed the slightest sign of taking sides about Bodyline , or suggesting that it was a threat to cricket , my reports would be censored and I would probably be replaced . |
| 26 | The Letter of 1019 – 20 says that he intended to avert a threat to England , and succeeded in dealing with great dangers , so that the Danes would henceforth at need be able to assist the English . |
| 27 | Any prolonged interruption to this process is a threat to survival — brain cells become damaged after two to three minutes without oxygen . |
| 28 | This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain , and consequently to human health . |
| 29 | Though this doctrine is patristic , some ‘ conservatives ’ at the Council saw a threat to faith in the Eucharistic real presence . |
| 30 | The letter raises the suspicion that there was a threat to Aethelbald 's life in 746–7 and that Boniface was responding to a potentially dangerous situation in Mercia at that time when any personal idiosyncrasy of behaviour on the part of the king , which was unacceptable to Christian morality , would be magnified . |