Example sentences of "are at stake " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose . |
| 2 | And in the absence of a modern British Bill of Rights , the European Convention provides a convenient source of Lord Diplock 's ‘ accepted moral standards ’ where fundamental rights and freedoms are at stake . |
| 3 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 4 | The statement , entitled ‘ Socialism needs everyone ’ , followed a meeting of the 21 members of the Politburo , who also brought in numerous members of the lower-ranking Central Committee — a rare event which only occurs when urgent and important issues are at stake . |
| 5 | They would , in return , assign not only their Polaris submarines , but also their V-bombers and tactical nuclear delivery systems to NATO , subject to the usual overriding proviso : ‘ except where Her Majesty 's Government may decide that the supreme national interests are at stake . |
| 6 | What is more disturbing is how long it can take to uncover such things when big reputations are at stake . |
| 7 | In a sense , greater values are at stake in the operation of aircraft , ships , and railways , because many lives are involved , more than would normally be risked by the bad driving of a motor vehicle ( although there is an important exception here in the operation of buses and coaches , which are more akin to planes , boats , and trains ) . |
| 8 | Many other forces of much more secular significance are at stake . |
| 9 | Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution . |
| 10 | Even employers who are punctilious in consulting staff representatives sometimes fail to talk directly to the people whose jobs are at stake . |
| 11 | Its heroes are household names and millions of pounds are at stake when it is staged . |
| 12 | But wider issues are at stake . |
| 13 | Two separate questions are at stake here : the financial risk of the individual participants , and the ease and extent to which the organisation itself may obtain suitable funds for its tasks . |
| 14 | Doctors are not infallible when a child 's peace and happiness are at stake . |
| 15 | Bob Cryer , Labour MP for Bradford South , added : ‘ It is unacceptable and remarkably insensitive and ignorant of the prince to step into finely balanced negotiations in which thousands of British jobs are at stake . |
| 16 | Luke , the writer of the gospel and the book of Acts , is at pains to expose prejudice , especially religious prejudice , and to show the difference the transforming work of Christ makes on the mind where issues of prejudice are at stake . |
| 17 | Players have to remember that their livelihoods are at stake . |
| 18 | Treaties must be kept , genocide is forbidden , war is to be indulged in only when vital national interests are at stake . |
| 19 | In wartime , pitted against an enemy in front and otherwise surrounded by Soviet divisions , it is difficult to see how conscripts would have any choice other than to fight as people do when their lives are at stake . |
| 20 | Yet some principles are at stake in Bosnia , and the world can not let the complexity of the issues be an excuse for doing nothing . |
| 21 | Too many jobs are at stake , and the safety net service that the municipal hospitals provide , without financial triage to determine whether the patient can pay , is too important for politicians to stay out of the kitchen . |
| 22 | In effect various interests are at stake : investors , corporate clients , the conglomerates themselves , and , indeed , the general public . |
| 23 | Simple images of marriage as a matter for individuals , based on romantic love , are seriously misleading when property inheritance and class culture are at stake ( Lupton and Wilson , 1959 ) . |
| 24 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 25 | Top line personnel carry much more authority when really critical matters are at stake . |
| 26 | However , their powers are essentially limited to development control procedures , which are often usurped when ‘ national interests ’ are at stake ; furthermore , most agricultural activities are excluded ( Shoard 1980 ; Green 1981 ) . |
| 27 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 28 | While this is true inasmuch as political futures are at stake , it has been suggested that in Britain deals with quite explicit electoral implications are rare . |
| 29 | However , where large amounts of money are at stake , the manipulation can be more serious . |
| 30 | Even the Southampton example pales into relative financial insignificance compared with the huge sums that are at stake in the sale of the Scottish Bus Group companies . |