Example sentences of "[Wh det] threatened [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 2 | The bankers ' peace , however , was not a genuine one , but a rampant militarism which threatened to destroy the foundations of civilized life as surely as , if less quickly than , war itself . |
| 3 | Because what is truly remarkable , given the nostalgic lament which has accompanied the subsequent displacement of this ‘ traditional way of life ’ , is that in their own historical time these emerging cultural institutions were greeted not only as something ‘ new ’ , but as signs of an alarming development among the British people which threatened to destroy the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 4 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |
| 5 | The trial had been due to begin on Jan. 28 , but was delayed after Noriega 's lawyers claimed that the prosecution had used procedures which threatened to deny the defendant a fair trial . |
| 6 | Faced with expressions of " growing concern " from Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and vociferous criticism from the bloc parties ( three of which threatened to leave the coalition over the issue ) , Modrow withdrew plans to create an Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the elections . |
| 7 | A minor problem which threatened to delay the second volume of Mary Leapor 's work was the epitaph [ see ML , 2 , 324 ] . |
| 8 | When , later , ‘ The Daleks ’ took the viewing public by storm David Whitaker contributed every bit as much as Terry Nation to the wave of Dalekmania which threatened to overwhelm the toyshops , book counters , newspaper stands , cinema aisles and theatre seats of Great Britain . |
| 9 | Mr Ormond 's compromise revealed another unpublicised chapter in the shady saga of Scottish football , a new era of player power was brewing which threatened to usurp the manager 's authority . |
| 10 | Derby found a means of holding his leader to ransom : a meeting of Lancashire Unionists which threatened to disown the new policy was adjourned for three weeks at his suggestion . |
| 11 | From the spring of 1954 the British resisted all American proposals which threatened to intensify the conflict in Indo-China . |
| 12 | The rally dispersed peacefully after around six hours having elected a strike committee , which threatened to call a general strike if their demands were not met . |
| 13 | The president of Daiwa Securities , Japan 's second-largest securities company , resigned on March 11 in connection with a stock scandal which threatened to reignite the controversy over the relationship between brokers and major clients which had been at the root of a series of scandals in mid-1991 [ see pp. 38292 ; 38342-42 ] . |
| 14 | This was on account of the fact that not long after the big switch-on of the water power there arose a scare which threatened to ruffle the smooth surface of the millpond . |
| 15 | The collapse of EDC was a bitter blow to the European movement , made worse by the fact that in October , after a crisis which threatened to rend the Atlantic alliance apart , France accepted West German rearmament within NATO , the very thing she had rejected in 1950 . |
| 16 | Hence their wariness of any human concepts about God which threatened to become a new idolatry that could be mistaken for the reality itself . |
| 17 | This economic slowdown , which threatened to become a full-blown recession , had the effect of highlighting structural weaknesses hitherto obscured by the comfortable consumer-led growth of the previous three years . |
| 18 | Helping the young Spanish Republic in its struggle for survival against these powerful enemies was , or seemed to be , a way of resisting the advance of a sinister creed and political system which threatened to engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | To pre-empt what threatened to become a lynching-party during a march on a nearby Chechen-populated town , the Soviet passed emergency resolutions including the eviction of Chechen residents from the area . |