Example sentences of "[verb] the risk of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some people are exposed ‘ to a choice between abandoning their legal rights and accepting the risk of suffering an undue financial burden . ’ |
| 3 | To succeed under the Consumer Protection Act , the plaintiff would have to establish that in 1989 people generally were entitled to expect the gloves not to carry the risk of causing arthritis ( see paragraph 9–08 above ) . |
| 4 | Erm and I thought I do n't want the risk of blowing . |
| 5 | An initial diagnosis of duodenal ulcer and the method of diagnosis being a radiographic examination seems to increase the risk of becoming a longterm user of ulcer drugs . |
| 6 | Consequently , while the method chosen to resolve the economic crisis brought political as well as economic benefits , it also involved the risk of setting up other political and economic tensions which might ultimately defeat the object of the exercise : the consolidation and continuation of the Franco regime . |
| 7 | In that way , you minimize the risk of making a poor choice and a false start in your first year , with the consequent possibility of having to catch up by taking extra classes or to repeat classes the following year . |
| 8 | It was decided the risk of going on was too great and the team retreated . |
| 9 | The Habitat-Mothercare group reduced the risk of offending against local custom when it entered the Japanese market by operating a franchise through an established Japanese retail group called Siebu . |
| 10 | Tobacco and alcohol act synergistically in the case of oral and pharyngeal cancers , multiplying the risk of contracting the disease [ 7 ] . |
| 11 | Porous asphalt was developed to reduce spray in heavy rain and cut the risk of aquaplaning . |
| 12 | Thus far , we have reached a ‘ hit or miss ’ situation and , by using the wide-angle lens , have minimised the risk of having a print full of the cows in the next field or a horizon just above the baseline . |
| 13 | Miriam:Soto is my mother tongue but as a rule we do n't use the African languages when we write because if you do so you run the risk of getting into the trap of the system . |
| 14 | In institutions such as hospitals or the BBC , where colleagues and acquaintances run the risk of passing one another many times in the same morning , the ritual resources for handling brief encounters are often over-stretched . |
| 15 | It points out that unimmunised children run the risk of catching diseases which are far more dangerous than the injections might be . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | National training in basic interviewing skills to be given to all police officers — this recognises the central role that confessions play in the police investigative strategy and the need to train officers out of the use of the ‘ persuasive techniques ’ , witnessed by the Commission 's researchers , which run the risk of producing unreliable evidence , in favour of a more open minded and even handed approach . |
| 18 | Control authorities may respond by increasing the dose of insecticide , but they run the risk of exceeding ‘ safe ’ dosages and increasing environmental contamination . |
| 19 | COMPUTER addicts who spend hours trapped in an electronic fantasy world run the risk of damaging their health , warn psychologists . |
| 20 | We run the risk of damaging our own campaigns by not fully understanding the roles staff can play , or how they can damage the process if they do not understand their role . |
| 21 | Sheltered work ventures provided specifically for identifiable groups of people with special needs always run the risk of segregating people with mental disorder from the rest of the community ; whenever possible , therefore , it is desirable to link such initiatives with ‘ for-profit ’ enterprises away from large old hospital grounds , however tempting it may be to use cheap old buildings and land on hospital sites . |
| 22 | If not , your entire beautifully prepared interview may prove a waste of time and you run the risk of appointing someone who is the least unsuitable candidate rather than someone who satisfies all the specifications . |
| 23 | I run the risk of sounding patronising here , but I do feel that this is a point worth making . |
| 24 | Pitch your bid too high and you run the risk of driving your opponent away from the negotiating table . |
| 25 | Otherwise marginalized groups run the risk of theorizing themselves out of existence . |
| 26 | This type runs in the family — the parents are unaffected but their children run the risk of inheriting the extra bit of chromosome . |
| 27 | Most organisations owed money would rather make such an arrangement , and have their money back eventually , than run the risk of saying goodbye to the money altogether . |
| 28 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 29 | Not only do most people find this tricky but you run the risk of forgetting how far down the list you have travelled . |
| 30 | Twice he 'd lost sight of them and been obliged to put on speed or else run the risk of failing to see them as they took some minor road or turn-off . |