Example sentences of "the risk of [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT THE risk of tarring the Kitchens with a ‘ retro ’ brush , there is something very 1982 abut them . |
| 2 | At the risk of wearying the reader it must again be stated that some degree of incestuous feeling exists in most if not all parents and children . |
| 3 | In further discussion , it was suggested that , even though opinion was divided on the merits and on the question whether the abolition of the death penalty would in normal circumstances give rise to an increase in the number of murders , the Cabinet might be able to agree that this was not an appropriate moment at which to take the risk of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 4 | If the two in the Renault were impostors , why were they taking the risk of using the car and the passports of two people who were presumed dead ? |
| 5 | In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages . |
| 6 | Tobacco and alcohol act synergistically in the case of oral and pharyngeal cancers , multiplying the risk of contracting the disease [ 7 ] . |
| 7 | The merit of separate qualified defences is that they focus the evidence and the legal argument , giving the jury ( in contested cases ) an opportunity to assess the defence , and giving the judge fairly precise guidance on the basis for sentencing : this might be thought to ensure that each defendant is dealt with more fairly , but the risk of confusing the jury in a contested case might tend to erode that protection . |
| 8 | Clearly there is a huge reward for them in performing these seemingly useless actions and , were it not for the risk of ingesting the wool fragments , there would be no harm in it . |
| 9 | Food production must be increased even at the risk of damaging the environment |
| 10 | Is this enough to justify the total expenditure of £85 or more — especially as you 'd better keep your toenails well trimmed to reduce the risk of piercing the end of the bootie ? |
| 11 | For the older baby , early weaning may be the answer , although it involves the risk of sensitizing the child to even more foods or — if all the high-risk foods are avoided — failing to give the child an adequate diet . |
| 12 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 13 | As Sally Alexander has observed , they ran the risk of leaving the door ‘ wide open for all sorts of ideas equating the national interest with motherhood and children ’ . |
| 14 | But the end result still runs the risk of leaving the viewer with a totally false impression . |
| 15 | The risk of catching the infection will obviously increase with the number of times intercourse takes place and will also depend on other factors , such as the sites that are infected and whether barrier contraceptives such as the condom are used . |
| 16 | During this time she is potentially infectious and any new sexual partners will run the risk of catching the infection . |
| 17 | This at once opens up a huge field of enquiry , but since our concern here is with literary theory , I shall restrict my discussion to structuralism 's contribution to the study of literature and , in doing so , unfortunately run the risk of understating the effects of the new pluridisciplinarity on the approach to literature . |
| 18 | All first-class advocates concentrate on what they consider to be their good points ; they do not run the risk of alienating the judge 's affections by producing obviously bad ones . |
| 19 | Pittards have developed a new chamois which dries soft , reducing the risk of scratching the paintwork . |
| 20 | We can use money market deposits to demonstrate the problem of reinvestment risk , the risk of renewing the deposit at a lower rate in a subsequent period . |
| 21 | No previous tank could operate effectively at anything like that speed across rough country without the risk of injuring the crew . |
| 22 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 23 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 24 | But it would increase the risk of undermining the pound and forcing a protective rise in interest rates . |
| 25 | The Freshman though , is essentially a movie-maker 's movie , a self-congratulatory in-joke that does n't take the risk of letting the audience think for itself . |
| 26 | The Freshman though , is essentially a movie-maker 's movie , a self-congratulatory in-joke that does n't take the risk of letting the audience think for itself . |
| 27 | But to do so always runs the risk of missing the point in particular intellectual debates . |
| 28 | Why take the risk of decentralizing the accounting office ? |
| 29 | ‘ There comes a time when you really have to say , ‘ Get up old girl , ’ or you run the risk of making the bed your habitat , ’ she once told a reporter . |
| 30 | ‘ Belfast can not allow this opportunity to make money for ratepayers to go to waste nor run the risk of making the city a dumping ground , ’ he warned . |