Example sentences of "[adv] a threat to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 2 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 3 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 4 | Nazism is not just a threat to homosexuals , ‘ Lefties ’ and racial minorities , but the very concepts of democracy and freedom and those who believe in them . |
| 5 | Botulism tends to remain in one location , so it 's not a threat to Slimbridge . |
| 6 | These were hardly a threat to Dyson 's rhetorical skills . |
| 7 | Portable operating systems , such as Unix , are also a threat to IBM and other companies which once prospered on proprietary ones , such as Wang and Data General . |
| 8 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |