Example sentences of "a threat [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 2 | The proposals implied too serious a threat to the counties ' precious Sunday revenues , and were substantially rejected despite some compromise on the structure of the Championship , which in 1988 came to include six four-day matches . |
| 3 | They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . |
| 4 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 5 | Whilst agreeing with the Commission about the desirability of reducing the number of crown court cases which are prepared for trial but where the defendant unexpectedly pleads guilty at the last moment , it believes that there are other ways of tackling this problem which do not pose a threat to the interests of justice . |
| 6 | Please could you tell me if the Pacu will be a threat to the sharks and catfish , as they grow ? |
| 7 | Jews are seen as a powerful threat to the nation : ‘ The presence of a large and powerful Jewish community in any country , such as we have in Britain today , is , and inherently must always be , a threat to the aspirations and best national interests of the host population . ’ |
| 8 | Think of situations where death , which we should usually see as outrageous and abnormal , is welcomed , as in the dying of extreme sufferers or those whose continued existence is a threat to the lives of others . |
| 9 | PREMIER John Major last night refused to be intimidated by a threat to the lives of 2,500 British troops in Bosnia . |
| 10 | Is n't this a threat to the workers who feel their job is permanent ? |
| 11 | With his influence spreading over the Pyrenees , — Bearn , Bigorre , Roussillon and Provence — Alfonso II was a formidable neighbour , a threat to the Dukes of Aquitaine as well as to the Kings of Navarre and Counts of Toulouse . |
| 12 | Even when the decay is spreading , it typically takes six years to travel through the tooth enamel into the softer dentin , where it becomes a threat to the nerves in the root canal . |
| 13 | The current trustees of the Barnes Foundation argue that the 1924 Merion villa on the edge of Philadelphia that housed the collection has become structurally unsafe and poses a threat to the pictures . |
| 14 | Although nowhere recorded in the public documents , the reason for Attlee 's climbdown on this central issue for Britain 's postwar overseas policy stance was a threat from the Chiefs of Staff to resign if the Prime Minister persisted in his criticisms . |
| 15 | The shopping centre already faces a threat from the attractions of large out-of-town developments , like the Gateshead MetroCentre , which offer free car parking and hundreds of shops under one roof . |
| 16 | On 28 December , partisans made repeated attacks on German transport on the Via Emilia , their main line of communication with the battle front , which led to a threat by the Germans that they would burn the villages along the length of the road . |
| 17 | The accord follows a threat by the Greens to withdraw their support for the Socialists in the regional assembly unless consideration for environmental factors was built into development strategies . |