Example sentences of "a danger to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ensure that your fingernails and toenails are clean and are cut short so that they do n't pose a danger to the opponent . |
| 2 | Furthermore , if your level of aggression is increased by drugs , you may very well prove to be a danger to the opponent and lose anyway ! |
| 3 | Debonair and dignified , or a danger to the community ? |
| 4 | His main thesis , that Thatcher 's defective personality and failing judgement , allied to a fierce determination to survive , supported by ruthless henchmen , make her a danger to the country , may well stand up . |
| 5 | Octavia Hill , too , adopted the principle that her housing ventures must be self-supporting , and that the tenants should pay an economic rent ; she maintained that rate-aided housing might be a danger to poorer tenants , who would be in the position of having to contribute through the rates to council housing , when they could scarcely afford the rent for their own inferior accommodation . |
| 6 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 7 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 8 | These people are a danger to themselves and others , are a downright public nuisance and their habits ( when conducted in the course of driving ) should be legislated against . |
| 9 | The only National Front MP elected in last year 's general election , Mrs Yann Piat , said she resigned from the party a year ago because she ‘ realised that the Front was a dead-end movement and a danger to our country . ’ |
| 10 | He is at his best on soft ground and would be a danger to all off his present mark if he could find his best form . |
| 11 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 12 | The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm . |
| 13 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 14 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 15 | The ‘ scourge of criminal violence ’ was , Whitelaw argued , a danger to the whole framework of consent and legality on which the political institutions of British society were based . |
| 16 | However , this can be a useful built-in safety factor , as it prevents those who are n't up to it from sailing in waves where they will be a danger to themselves and others . |
| 17 | Similarly , James Bryce , chairman of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education , also looked on sectional interests as a danger to the common good because ‘ civilized societies ’ , he said , were progressing towards popular government and , given this direction , ‘ each member of a free community must be capable of citizenship ’ which involved ‘ Intelligence , Self-Control , Conscience ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid he 's becoming as much a danger to us as he is to everyone else . ’ |
| 19 | Section 7(4) imposes a duty on the disposal authority to issue such a notice where it appears that continuation of activities to which the licence relates would cause pollution of water , a danger to public health or are seriously detrimental to amenities of the locality , and can not be avoided by modifying the conditions specified in the licence . |
| 20 | Quite often however the question of whether materials are merely an annoyance or in fact a danger to health is a quantitative one . |
| 21 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 22 | The result is both a danger to the local population ( such as the town of Nicolosi , which is in the path of the present flow ) and a loss of valuable research opportunities . |
| 23 | SERGEI V. IVANOV , the Russian diplomat declared persona non grata on the eve of All Fool 's day was a danger to Britain because he is a purpose built hi-tech spy . |
| 24 | A KINGSLEY man , branded ‘ a pest and a danger to everyone ’ has been put on probation for two years . |
| 25 | Government Ministers have increased powers to act if they suspect that food on sale may be a danger to health |
| 26 | The favoured solution is therefore to find ways of slowing cars to speeds at which the short sight-lines are not a danger to children . |
| 27 | So please put her mind at rest and tell her it 's not plastic , but some other product that 's not a danger to us , because we 'd love to have them back please ! |
| 28 | Elderly people should never be persuaded against their will to move out of their own home , unless their mental or physical health or living conditions are so deplorable that they are a danger to their own or other people 's safety . |
| 29 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 30 | He spent so much time preening and posing and intimidating rivals and refusing to enter the competition before the bar became a danger to low-flying aircraft that he failed to clear a height . |