Example sentences of "a threat [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protestant violent action against Civil Rights marches was seen by Catholics as a threat to their communities . |
| 2 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 3 | That is to say , the majority of those who had domestic power in Libya were inclined to see the emancipation of women as a threat to their interests . |
| 4 | Thus if all cancers discovered at necropsy were identified clinically and treated then 26 out of 27 patients would be treated unnecessarily because these tumours do not represent a threat to their lives . |
| 5 | There 's been loud and strong protest over the past few weeks as parents have campaigned against the clinic claiming it presented a threat to their children 's well-being . |
| 6 | They say it 's the wrong place and will pose a threat to their children . |
| 7 | Finally , under collective entrepreneurship , workers do not fear technology and automation as a threat to their jobs . |
| 8 | One , that many trade unionists work at and there 's a threat to their jobs and a threat to their future careers . |
| 9 | These pose a threat to our lives by virtue of how they are produced and what they are made of . |
| 10 | The human psyche finds the idea of its own destruction intolerable and another 's death can be a threat to our fantasies of immortality . |
| 11 | Now it seems that — after nearly 40 years in which pop has been seen as a threat to our children — it is finally safe to unlock your daughters . |