Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] dangerous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage . |
| 2 | Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway . |
| 3 | The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another . |
| 4 | According to the Mail on Sunday , John Major is telling friends that Blair is ‘ the most formidable debater and has the quickest and most dangerous mind ’ on the Opposition benches . |
| 5 | And it was all so ‘ un-English ’ : ‘ The shoulder charge , the fairest and least dangerous weapon in the footballer 's armoury , has declined , and in its place has arisen a regiment of mean and dangerous tricks … |
| 6 | Great whites , also known as white pointers , are the biggest and most dangerous shark species found in the waters around Australia . |
| 7 | An extra benefit of Contran is that it should eliminate the infuriating and potentially dangerous situation when a stuck PTT switch or mike relay in one aircraft blocks a frequency for a protracted period . |
| 8 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 9 | All the same , among today 's MPs , the monarchy itself has become a touchy and electorally dangerous topic . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 11 | Simply because it does give a numerical score , rather than the subjective impression given by an interview , credit scoring may give a spurious and therefore dangerous impression of accuracy . |
| 12 | They do a dirty and often dangerous job , but this wild driving should be curtailed before others are killed . |
| 13 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 14 | In its undigested state , this voluminous competitor information , 90 per cent of which is publicly available , may be vaguely interesting and occasionally intriguing , but however glittering it is essentially an unusable and potentially dangerous resource . |
| 15 | Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals . |
| 16 | It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body . |