Example sentences of "[adv] [be] put at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wallis said there was ‘ no way we want to see miners out of jobs ’ but PowerGen 's own survival would not be put at risk by limiting its range of suppliers . |
| 2 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 3 | It also means that other executives calculating the odds will most likely decide that their jobs , their friendship network , and their club affiliations will not be put at risk . |
| 4 | As any good control theorist ( Box 1981a ; Hirschi 1969 ; Johnson 1979 ) knows , even if people have a high stake in conformity , this will not act as a brake on their criminal behaviour if they perceive — quite rightly in the case of executives contemplating corporate crime — that this stake will not be put at risk by undertaking such a shady but profitable enterprise . |
| 5 | As the RSFSR can not be put at risk by being surrounded by non-obedient or independent and sovereign republics in Ukraine , Belorussia , Lithuania , Armenia , etc. , so the security of the USSR as a national state can not be put at risk by non-obedient and sovereign countries in east central Europe ( and possibly elsewhere ) . |
| 6 | As the RSFSR can not be put at risk by being surrounded by non-obedient or independent and sovereign republics in Ukraine , Belorussia , Lithuania , Armenia , etc. , so the security of the USSR as a national state can not be put at risk by non-obedient and sovereign countries in east central Europe ( and possibly elsewhere ) . |
| 7 | An extrajudicial offer , even if backed up with assertions that it will not be improved upon , does not carry the same penalty in expenses and the pursuer and his advisers , confident of success , will not be put at risk on expenses by such an offer . |
| 8 | The six Church leaders warned : ‘ Unless the dispute is resolved and a proper service is resumed as soon as possible , we believe that people 's lives will increasingly be put at risk . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People ca n't be put at risk like this . |
| 10 | Hereto is appended an estimate of the cost of the works suggested to be constructed departmently by the Canal Company the total of which may roundly be put at £12,000 . |