Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] danger " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never descended a pothole , and have ventured with a flashlight only in the caves promised by caving journals to be without danger . |
| 2 | The United Biscuits chairman is , however , concerned that today 's executive finds himself working in a business environment that appears to be in danger of moral decline . |
| 3 | He was taken to the intensive care unit at the colony 's St Bernard 's Hospital but his life is not believed to be in danger . |
| 4 | Ironically , whilst such a group took the very existence of the family to be in danger from permissiveness , the developing radical-feminist position argued that the ‘ talk ’ of permissiveness was a means of disguising the threat that such an institution posed to women 's real chances of liberation : ‘ Rather than posing a threat to traditional patriarchal marriage the sexual revolution strengthened the institution ’ . |
| 5 | Both these interpretations of normalisation seem to be in danger of losing sight of the individual at the centre of things . |
| 6 | If , thanks to you , my daughter comes to any harm , I 'll make sure the world knows every detail of how and why she came to be in danger . ’ |
| 7 | We were also aware that ‘ TTT ’ began to be in danger of becoming yet another over-used and under-defined primary slogan and all kinds of claims were being made for its educational efficacy for children simply because of the novelty , stimulus and enjoyment which it could give to their teachers . |
| 8 | She laid great stress on these little courtesies , the formal acts of politeness that women in their emancipated state seemed to be in danger of losing . |
| 9 | At the same time concern was growing in the business community over the government 's increasingly critical attitude toward the USA , Japan 's biggest trade partner , and by mid-March Miyazawa 's position as leader was considered by many observers to be in danger . |
| 10 | The Louisiana law criminalized abortion in all instances apart from where the life of the mother was deemed to be in danger or where pregnancy had resulted from rape or incest . |
| 11 | The RAF were expecting them , and a motorised ack-ack unit had been called in with their Scammells and their diesel generators and their giant mobile searchlights to blaze away with 3.7 inch AA guns at what they tentatively registered as about a dozen Heinkels flying very high , too high to be in danger . |
| 12 | Thus ( 15a ) presupposes that the person referred to by I has been waiting for news about someone whom he thought to be in danger , whereas ( 15b ) does not , and might be said rather by someone who is comparing himself with other people who do not know this fact . |
| 13 | On the other hand the needs and welfare of the child must be paramount and if a child is deemed to be in danger , or at any particular risk , the child must be removed . |
| 14 | Some routes thought to be in danger will instead get improved services . |
| 15 | A town centre wall feared to be in danger of collapse could cost up to £60,000 to put right . |
| 16 | In attempting to repair it however , we seem to be in danger of fixing the wrong thing . |