Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] dangerous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another . |
| 3 | According to the Mail on Sunday , John Major is telling friends that Blair is ‘ the most formidable debater and has the quickest and most dangerous mind ’ on the Opposition benches . |
| 4 | Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway . |
| 5 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 10 | And it shows the easy but potentially dangerous slide from manageable credit purchases into a vicious circle of cash loans and increasing indebtedness — all with the same credit caller . |
| 11 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 12 | It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage . |
| 13 | Not , as might be imagined , from the long-dreaded combined forces of Sega Megadrive , Nintendo Game Boy and the rest but from a far more insidious and therefore dangerous enemy — the government . |
| 14 | All the same , among today 's MPs , the monarchy itself has become a touchy and electorally dangerous topic . |
| 15 | The task analysis will take the form of a consideration of the most likely or most dangerous failure and combinations of failures and the ways in which these will appear as indications in the control room . |
| 16 | Smith is seen as today 's Healey figure , a conservative consolidator ; Brown as a more radical , more hostile and more dangerous rival . |
| 17 | AN extraordinary number of words were spoken and written following the France v England game in Paris slating the French for their rough and perhaps dangerous play . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And it was all so ‘ un-English ’ : ‘ The shoulder charge , the fairest and least dangerous weapon in the footballer 's armoury , has declined , and in its place has arisen a regiment of mean and dangerous tricks … |
| 22 | But there is a desperate shortage of places and the expertise and facilities of these units is best concentrated on the more difficult or seriously dangerous offender . |
| 23 | It was her opportunity to escape from this crazy and possibly dangerous game of let's pretend . |
| 24 | Great whites , also known as white pointers , are the biggest and most dangerous shark species found in the waters around Australia . |
| 25 | An extra benefit of Contran is that it should eliminate the infuriating and potentially dangerous situation when a stuck PTT switch or mike relay in one aircraft blocks a frequency for a protracted period . |
| 26 | In much the same way his reference to the rundown , dirty and potentially dangerous state of public transport would strike a chord with commuters who use our shoddy and dilapidated railways or who drive on potholed roads . |
| 27 | They do a dirty and often dangerous job , but this wild driving should be curtailed before others are killed . |
| 28 | Eliot 's familiar theme that the savage exists even below the urban world on a forgotten , yet still potent and often dangerous level is here reiterated : |
| 29 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 30 | This report describes an intramural haematoma of the oesophagus , a rare but potentially dangerous complication of variceal injection . |