Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [prep] risk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the ‘ bogeyman ’ used by mother to frighten her recalcitrant children into better behaviour , syphilis or ‘ the pox ’ is used by scaremongering educators to put the fear of God into those people they think might be at risk of catching VD . |
| 2 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 3 | Landlord might be at risk financially , the subtenancy proposed being at a premium and a low rent . |
| 4 | The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk . |
| 5 | Where after they 've been born , they might have had delayed breathing , not breathed immediately , so that type of baby might be at risk . |
| 6 | He/she might be constrained by loyalty to ministers ; as a result , reputation and career might be at risk . |
| 7 | they they might be at risk . |
| 8 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 9 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 10 | Around 4,000 older homes could be at risk — the problem is to identify which concrete is about to crumble and which is sound . |
| 11 | Your home could be at risk if you do n't take some basic precautions — and not taking them now is giving a burglar an invitation for later . |
| 12 | If this is correct , any patient in hospital who is given a blood transfusion could be at risk if one of the donors of the blood carries the virus . |
| 13 | THE HEALTH of workers in some of the new biotechnology factories could be at risk if companies do not adhere strictly to safety guidelines to contain their creations . |
| 14 | Swimming is regarded as one of the best all-round forms of exercise , but a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers shows you could be at risk from stomach upsets and skin rashes if you take a dip in dirty public swimming pools . |
| 15 | The move means 800 jobs at his contracting firm could be at risk . |
| 16 | You could be at risk of heart disease or other stress-related illness . |
| 17 | Although not defined under the Road Traffic Act it is considered that having regard to the spirit of the legislation that the definition used in other Acts would apply viz : Includes any place to which the public have access whether on payment or otherwise , e.g. fields where the public can park for a race meeting or traction engine rally , footpaths or bridleways ( unless the Act states otherwise : see section 22A ( 5 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ) , or anywhere where the public could be at risk from mechanically propelled vehicles . |
| 18 | TWO youngsters who were strangled after warnings that they could be at risk were put on a council child protection register in June , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | Humphrey and Haward , for example , warn that ‘ a female-dominated [ clinical psychological ] profession … could be at risk of losing status and momentum . |
| 20 | If that rough measure holds , and if the redesign does manage to save $8 billion over five years , 10,000 or more jobs could be at risk . |
| 21 | Remember that some patients will be more prone to hazards than others but that there may be occasions when all patients could be at risk . |
| 22 | It says that up to 50,000 jobs in the oil and gas industry onshore , and 5,000 offshore jobs could be at risk if the government decides to impose constraints upon the industry 's access to a free market . |
| 23 | Norfolk County Council has proposed a ban on coastal developments which could be at risk from sea level rises due to global warming . |
| 24 | The Japanese Association denounced the claims of the anti-driftnet lobby as emotional and unscientific. 10,000 Japanese jobs could be at risk from a ban , it said . |
| 25 | To this end , it has produced advertisements suggesting that more lives could be at risk if people switched to smaller cars . |
| 26 | Zoologists say the problem 's so bad native species could be at risk . |
| 27 | But there were fears that a town near the foot of Mt Galeras could be at risk . |
| 28 | But families who could be at risk say they at least deserve the benefit of the doubt . |
| 29 | New tests have shown that homes throughout an entire county could be at risk from the radioactive gas Radon . |
| 30 | Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk . |