Example sentences of "a warning to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he also reveals his own cunning ( very much like Claudius ' ) when on the ship to England by changing the letters of instruction and having them killed : a punishment for those who tried to deceive him and a warning to Claudius . |
| 2 | The incident seems to have been settled , but remains a warning to writers of climbing guides that they are n't above the law of libel . |
| 3 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 4 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 5 | but selectively , ‘ as a warning to owners of land in general ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ This is more of a warning to clubs that three red cards in as many games will not be tolerated . ’ |
| 7 | But it should serve as a warning to teachers that suggestions from the ‘ fundamental disciplines ’ must be viewed with caution and scepticism . |
| 8 | Perhaps the famine — like the plagues of Egypt of old — was sent by God as a warning to England and Ireland to turn from this course while time still offered . |
| 9 | Geoff Hamilton continues to champion effective alternatives to peat , sounding a warning to suppliers of substandard ‘ green ’ materials and misleading information |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Today police issued a warning to motorists : |
| 12 | His body was left to rot as a warning to others who might be tempted to stray from those paths of righteousness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others . |
| 17 | Coroner Clifford Tughan said that he hoped Mr McCaffrey 's tragic death would serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to climb out of lifts . |
| 18 | anne Henderson says her prdicament is a warning to others in her situation … |
| 19 | The judge said the long sentence should serve as a warning to others tempted to join the illegal trade in exotic birds . |
| 20 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 21 | Our hope is that this letter will be a warning to others and that some of your readers may be alerted to check on their security arrangements , whether it be simple precautions or advice about a security installation . |
| 22 | It issues a warning to systems theories so generously constructed that experience could never refute them . |
| 23 | Far from being the moment when British trade unionism all but collapsed , the General Strike — even though there were other factors at play — sounded a warning to employers that trade unions would resist further wage incursions and that the cost of too muscular an industrial policy could be high . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | CATS , wrote London 's Daily Star , ran up the curtains when the BBC broadcast too realistic a warning to pet-owners against the use of fireworks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She shouted a warning to Defries and fired . |
| 30 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |