Example sentences of "danger of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Bowie findings were by no means conclusive , but they were yet another sign of the hidden dangers of living in the nuclear shadow .
2 All experienced hillwalkers are well aware of the dangers of venturing onto the hills without being properly equipped and prepared .
3 This video has been put together by Oxfordshire ambulance service to warn young drivers of the dangers of getting behind the wheel .
4 Organisations may be less ready to deal with radical solutions because of the dangers of dealing with the unfamiliar .
5 Martin Moran offers some sound advice on minimising the dangers of climbing in the Alps
6 They 're not gon na be saying anything about the dangers of bullying in the recruiting office .
7 These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing .
8 Ashton et al. 's extremely detailed studies indicate the dangers of generalizing about the education/production relationship .
9 Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance .
10 They had been staying at a log cabin holiday home at Cropton , near Pickering , and yesterday , Ray Allanson , manager of the Forestry Commission 's Keldy Forest cabins , said : ‘ They left without any maps unaware of the dangers of walking in the forest at night .
11 The Bishop of Peterborough in his diocesan magazine warned of the dangers of playing with the occult and the unknown .
12 Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke .
13 We have to answer an er your Lordships are in danger of getting into the mood of treating this debate as a charge with a single issue to be decided on a single voter .
14 He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him .
15 Yet the confused young woman that was the real Diana was in grave danger of drowning in the tidal wave of change which had turned her world upside-down .
16 Here again I think that you 're in danger of drifting from the essential feature , which is that in the absence of a requirement to take land out of the greenbelt , the whole of the area er within the general extent of the greenbelt as approved by the Secretary of State erm has a greenbelt function .
17 The Zambian capital of Lusaka , and surrounding towns , may be in danger of sinking into the ground because of the increasing numbers of water boreholes being drilled in the area .
18 By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah .
19 The inherent danger of standing in the centre circus ring of pop amid accusations of selling out to the mainstream ?
20 He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty .
21 It nearly over , we were in danger of going off the road with it .
22 There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether .
23 Dwarfing his bicycle , he hunched over the handlebars , his duffel coat in constant danger of tangling with the spokes .
24 Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them .
25 Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha !
26 In Bangladesh , Oral Rehydration Therapy was in danger of falling into the trap of being inappropriate for the people that it was intended to help .
27 In tailoring user behaviour to fit the system , there is the danger of falling into the same trap as the conventional catalogue , where the tool tailors the task .
28 Graham was thrust into the Palace Manager 's seat when Arthur Rowe was taken seriously ill in November l 962 , and with the club in grave danger of returning to the Fourth Division .
29 The ruling Gaullists and the Communists alike were in danger of cracking under the strain of the May Events .
30 Seen in this light , both Cairns-Smith 's theory and the primeval-soup theory seem if anything in danger of erring on the side of being too plausible !
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