Example sentences of "have been threaten with [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 For several years now the Yanomami Indians of Brazil have been threatened with extinction .
5 He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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