Example sentences of "[be] threatened with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 2 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 3 | Under an agreement with the mostly Pakistani residents , the trust bought for £1 each the dilapidated Grade II-listed homes , dating from 1848–51 , after they had been threatened with demolition . |
| 4 | Under an agreement with the mostly Pakistani residents , the trust bought for £1 each the dilapidated Grade II-listed homes , dating from 1848–51 , after they had been threatened with demolition . |
| 5 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 6 | All of a sudden they have become sympathetic to a work force , the very people who have been threatened with Government 's legislation on competitive tendering . |
| 7 | The only two Hong Kong legislators who consistently dare to speak out , Mr Martin Lee and Mr Szeto Wah , have been threatened with expulsion from the committee now drafting China 's post-1997 Basic Law . |
| 8 | George Strauss had already been threatened with expulsion for welcoming support from the Communists during the London County Council elections in March . |
| 9 | Two arkie surveys have produced almost nothing , and yet Mr Coombs — an elderly man — has been threatened with jail if he so much as uproots a tree in his own garden . |
| 10 | He 's even been threatened with jail . |
| 11 | Even the brewery social club has been threatened with closure . |
| 12 | He began his statement by announcing that Chelsea 's Stamford Bridge ground , which had been threatened with closure , was safe . |
| 13 | Specialising in chest and orthopaedic the hospital has been threatened with closure for more than two years now . |
| 14 | The unit 's been threatened with closure together with the hospital 's other acute service including Intensive care , coronary care , and specialist baby care . |
| 15 | He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland . |
| 16 | The decision to close the centres coincided with news of the sudden death of a head teacher whose school is one of four secondaries on the south side of Glasgow that have been threatened with closure . |
| 17 | Even he has been threatened with death . |
| 18 | The Mexico-based Human Rights Committee of Guatemala ( CGDH ) also said that its members had been threatened with death for participating in a " national dialogue " involving members of the exiled opposition , held in March 1988 [ see pp. 36927-28 ] . |
| 19 | For several years now the Yanomami Indians of Brazil have been threatened with extinction . |
| 20 | Walrus numbers are currently healthy , but the animal has been threatened with extinction twice this century |
| 21 | Some , like Frank Field , have been threatened with de-selection because their Christian consciences are troubled by the issue ; Labour for Life , an anti-abortion Left-wing group , has been ‘ de-recognised ’ by Walworth Road . |
| 22 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 23 | Perry 's manager Sally Dickinson said at one point Mr Glenn had tried to switch on a light to raise the alarm but had been threatened with violence . |
| 24 | ‘ I am threatened with eviction , and need a solicitor to negotiate with the landlord . |
| 25 | Much of Australia 's farmlands are threatened with salination , caused in part by the consequences of farmers cutting down trees to clear land for wheat and other crops . |
| 26 | Given that the burning of municipal waste is a major element can my hon. Friend estimate the number of landfill sites that will no longer be needed , and whether an increase in the burning of waste will lessen the problem in places such as Crossways in my constituency , where vast areas are threatened with landfill ? |
| 27 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 28 | If you are threatened with disconnection or are already disconnected , it is useful to know the protection given under the Gas and Electricity Codes of Practice to consumers in ‘ hardship ’ . |
| 29 | But now the huts they worked in are threatened with demolition . |
| 30 | Rescue excavations are those conducted on sites that are threatened with destruction and should be carried out to at least the same standards as found on research excavations . |