Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] put at [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Fowler said there was no reason why businesses and jobs should be put at risk by workers called upon to strike when they had no dispute with their employer . |
| 2 | Holmes says that there should be no further sailings until the problem is sorted out : No one else should be put at risk . |
| 3 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 4 | Police have refused to identify the 22-year-old clerk because her life could be put at risk . |
| 5 | My view is that the community could be put at risk by some of these prisoners . |
| 6 | Doctors say people 's health could be put at risk from car pollution if a new road is built . |
| 7 | Warning that the future level and pace of North Sea development could be put at risk , he pointed out that estimates suggests about 100,000 Scottish jobs were directly or indirectly oil-related . |
| 8 | Suggesting that the long-term viability of BC and its privatisation potential could be put at risk by curbs on open-cast operations , Mr Chance added : ‘ Mining communities can not be saved at the expense of the open-cast industry . |
| 9 | The coalition warns that federal and state regulations on environment , health and safety may be put at risk if the draft is agreed . |
| 10 | Indeed , the coal industry as a whole would be put at risk through premature shutdown of the opencast sector . |
| 11 | Is he aware that renationalising water would cost the taxpayer £8 billion and that the whole of this investment programme would be put at risk ? |
| 12 | They know that all that would be put at risk if there were the prospect of a Labour Government . |
| 13 | The British , however , were determined to make the most of any argument or " agreement " to protect their " independent " deterrent , especially as Macmillan — quite apart from any strategic calculation — insisted that his own political position and that of his government would be put at risk if Britain were deprived of this great-power symbol . |
| 14 | The parents of murdered council worker Anna McGurk say more lives will be put at risk after the Government refused to hold an inquiry into bail procedures . |
| 15 | But the Health Authority insists no-one will be put at risk , and that the plan is to actually IMPROVE services . |
| 16 | The health and safety of our children will be put at risk , as current surveys show definite links between traffic pollution and chest ailments such as asthma and the wildlife inhabiting the hedgerows will disappear . |
| 17 | There has to be the possibility that the politics can be put at risk by the aesthetics , or the relationship as well as each of its components will be inert . |
| 18 | Speech can actually improve if stammerers can be put at ease . |