Example sentences of "danger of [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubted she would ever be in danger of taking anyone at face value again , not after meeting Feargal and his sister . |
| 2 | If there is a problem , it 's that , while all the individual elements make sense , put together they generate an exhilarating overload of 24K sound and post-industrial fury which is in danger of signifying nothing in particular about cyberspace or anything else . |
| 3 | Nevertheless to consider the National Curriculum as a list of subjects runs the danger of expressing it in a way which over-emphasises information and a narrow range of skills at the expense of the development of a full range of socially useful skills , attitudes and ideas , which is usually the concern of interested parents and can even be seen in a child 's view of the purpose of education . |
| 4 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 5 | ‘ The important thing is to avoid the danger of talking ourselves into a sense of almost terminal gloom . |
| 6 | We are in danger of talking ourselves into a deeper decline in which only the bad news is given attention . |
| 7 | He said the scheme could give confidence to youngsters who were in danger of losing it at a crucial time in their lives through adverse family or other circumstances . |
| 8 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 10 | The man , in his 20s , clung to an overhanging tree when his damaged craft was in danger of carrying him to his death over a raging weir . |
| 11 | Many members of the oligarchy , particularly the military , have powerful financial interests in gambling and prostitution , but on the other hand , prostitutes are always in danger of finding themselves outside the margin of the law . |
| 12 | Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors ! |
| 13 | And this is where we are in danger of finding ourselves in a vicious circle : for industry one has got to have products and to get products one has got to have industry … |
| 14 | An individual that escalates without assessment is in danger of finding itself in a fight with a much stronger individual . |
| 15 | The danger of killing himself in a fall was very real , but this was a fear he had learned to master , even to enjoy . |