Example sentences of "[adj] degree [prep] risk " in BNC.
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| 1 | This degree of risk would be unacceptably high for most business purposes and yet the risk of failure of a new product is very much " higher . |
| 2 | Every financial claim has some degree of risk attached to it . |
| 3 | Application of new technology inevitably involves some degree of risk . |
| 4 | Most decisions made by individuals , organisations and administrators involve some degree of risk or uncertainty about the outcome , and it is therefore important for social scientists to be able to understand , explain and predict behaviour when risk and uncertainty is involved . |
| 5 | However , the investment in all assets except for short-term government debt involves some degree of risk . |
| 6 | It is usually beneficial for organisations whose activities involve some degree of risk to the public to establish two–way communication on the issues . |
| 7 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 8 | New ventures that embody a high degree of risk , for example in high technology areas , are often undertaken by newly formed companies financed by the allocation of stock to group members . |
| 9 | By the beginning of 1957 Franco found himself on the horns of a dilemma : both change and immobilism implied a high degree of risk for his continuation in power . |
| 10 | I think a settlement of this size would be compatible with the general pattern of village development that exists in the York area , if a new settlement were significantly larger than this pattern I think there would be a high degree of risk of coalescence with the existing er communities , and would certainly threaten their identity . |
| 11 | If one took that as a parameter , and applied that to the existing settlement pattern , there is indeed a high degree of risk of coalescence if in fact a new settlement were of a significant significantly larger than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 12 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 13 | Some would argue that the compound rates of return required by venture capitalists — on average 20 per cent to 25 per cent p.a. , but sometimes up to 50 per cent for start ups-are too high , but this is difficult to argue against given the nature of the investments involved and the high degree of risk . |
| 14 | How can high-bay warehousing be classified in order to identify different degrees of risk which result from equipment layout and complexity over and above the question of differing degrees of combustibility ( this aspect being adequately covered in the Fire Offices ' Committee Rules ) . |
| 15 | Nicholas Knight , equity strategist at broker Nomura , believes the major degree of risk lies in the United States . |
| 16 | Those who place orders will not normally accept any great degree of risk that the supplier will go out of business before the order is delivered , nor will they place large orders with firms whose working capital and liquidity appears unsound or badly managed ; * the placing of Conditions on Potential orders such that suppliers : must conform to specified quality control Procedures such as those specified by the UK quality standard BS 5750 . |
| 17 | Surgeons should not be burdened with the responsibility of assessing their own degree of risk . |
| 18 | It is understandable that society should demand to be protected from the risk of recurrence of a violent or sexual offence , but at present society 's response to even modest degrees of risk tends to be overly repressive and restrictive . |
| 19 | The responsibility of the issuing house ( usually one of the main merchant banks , a member of the Accepting Houses Association ) is to ensure all the funds are raised , and as cheaply and efficiently as possible , with a minimum degree of risk to the company . |
| 20 | Trading abroad as an importer or exporter can be highly profitable , but it often involves a greater degree of risk than operating in the home market . |
| 21 | The upshot of all this is that takeovers involve a significant degree of risk for offerors . |
| 22 | Further research is urgently needed to establish the true degree of risk , not only of colonisation but also for clinical outcome in CF patients , and the optimum method of reducing transmission in hospital and social settings . |