Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a threat [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour leadership , fully committed to the Churchill coalition , tended to see pressure from below more as a threat to the orderly regimentation of the people , than as a source of constructive initiative . |
| 2 | Sylvanus is seen partly as a threat to sexual virtue , partly as a threat to social and economic structures which have traditionally guaranteed certain rights and freedoms to agricultural workers . |
| 3 | Sylvanus is seen partly as a threat to sexual virtue , partly as a threat to social and economic structures which have traditionally guaranteed certain rights and freedoms to agricultural workers . |
| 4 | Therefore , people who suffer from intellectual impairment may be unable to acquire adequate knowledge and to respond quickly and appropriately to a threat to safety . |
| 5 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |