adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dangerous creature
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dangerous creatures such as tigers
a dangerous driver
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Some young men tend to be dangerous drivers.
a dangerous obsession
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Mark had a dangerous obsession with fast cars.
a dangerous opponent (= one who might defeat you )
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In tomorrow's match, he will take on his most dangerous opponent.
a dangerous precedent (= one that could cause problems in the future )
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They opposed the plan, saying it would create a dangerous precedent.
a dangerous/hazardous/harmful substance
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Using chemicals or othe hazardous substances at work can put people's health at risk.
a dangerous/hazardous/perilous journey
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They set off on the dangerous journey down the river.
a toxic/dangerous compound (= containing poisonous or harmful substances )
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toxic compounds such as heavy metals
careless/dangerous driving
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She pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
dangerous
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The situation was becoming increasingly dangerous.
dangerous/harmful
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Many cleaning products contain chemicals that can be harmful.
dangerous/treacherous
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Beaches usually have signs that warn of dangerous currents.
positively dangerous
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Some holiday destinations are positively dangerous .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Though still handsome, he looked hard, ruthless, and twice as dangerous as Isabel remembered.
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Oliver tied the team to a stump and led her across as if it were as dangerous as a high wire.
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So in many ways misinterpreting the concept of core groups can be just as dangerous as ignoring their reality.
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Never beaten but didn't look as dangerous coming forward as Chris Powell.
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Driving while talking on the phone is as dangerous as driving while drunk.
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Social order can be found in events that are generally seen as dangerous and irrational.
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Broken bottles are just as dangerous as knives and should be treated with equal respect.
extremely
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A girl imbued with such qualities would be very special and extremely dangerous .
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When it is acquired this way, it can be extremely dangerous .
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It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable.
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He is armed with a large-caliber pistol and considered extremely dangerous .
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In theory, the whole island could be live and extremely dangerous .
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A psychiatric report showed he was extremely dangerous , particularly to anyone with whom he formed a relationship.
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Unfortunately, it can be extremely dangerous - unless you're careful.
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These are concepts which are not exactly weak, but they lack substance; they are words and words are extremely dangerous .
highly
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The normality of Highly dangerous cars crash violently in comparison with?
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It's meant for children with growth problems, and can be highly dangerous if misused.
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This is a highly dangerous trend, because there is no telling where it will end.
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It would be highly dangerous if we had the choice of tampering with instinct.
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For the Ego, it is highly dangerous to get too close to anyone.
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Even outside a nuclear weapon it is a highly dangerous substance - fatal to humans if ingested in even minute quantities.
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That kind of knowledge could be highly dangerous , and she would do just about anything to keep it from him.
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Each of the three seems to be highly dangerous .
how
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Dad worried about electricity, how dangerous it was.
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She had always been nice about her morals; she grew nicer still. How dangerous a place, this country!
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I must warn him how dangerous such people are.
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The Cambridge Diet debacle shows just how dangerous weight-loss marketing schemes can be.
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But vets say the public is unaware of just how dangerous the virus can be.
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They carried on for another month, every night inspecting to see how dangerous things had gotten.
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Just how dangerous they are depends on the particular chemical and how much is used.
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Everyone knows how dangerous the life is.
less
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The latest find is of white asbestos, less dangerous than the blue variety, provided it is not disturbed.
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Ismail became progressively less dangerous as a kick returner, once his springboard to fame.
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Secondly, wars which involved civilian targets were less dangerous and cheaper to organise, but very costly for the defender.
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The task is to make the global epidemic less dangerous .
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There are other, less dangerous and difficult ways to shed the cluttered carapace of house.
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The anarchism of labor is more shocking, less dangerous .
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Many Lake District slate quarries are still working, but of course modern roads and vehicles make the job much less dangerous now.
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Is there any other, less dangerous way to do this?
more
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In the 1980s, changes in the law, and market pressures made this feature of accounting more prevalent and more dangerous .
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When circumstances are more dangerous , as in shop or physical education, a teacher would be expected to exercise greater care.
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The mission could be even more dangerous than protecting convoys.
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The trial court found that the Arizona law had no reasonable relation to safety, and made train operation more dangerous .
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All magic is dangerous and the titanic forces drawn into the realm of Ulthuan are more dangerous than any other.
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The situation was far more dangerous than Woodward realized.
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So unless some action is taken to shape globalisation the world will grow more dangerous and volatile.
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Third: Stillman was far more dangerous than previously imagined.
most
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In the chasse, messieurs, mesdames, the beast is at its most dangerous when it is cornered.
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Mel Gray, even at age 35, is among the most dangerous kick returners in the league.
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They say the fourth child is the most dangerous .
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That was probably the most dangerous operation we had, beyond a doubt.
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Perhaps they are at their most dangerous when possessed by some one with the gift of persuasive speech and power and influence.
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But Mr Museveni's most dangerous failure is destined to be his refusal to allow opposition groups to organise.
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Sanchez Vicario may be Graf's most dangerous opponent.
particularly
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Any window that opens outwards and is at head level is particularly dangerous for those without sight.
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They seem to me to be particularly dangerous in parts of the Balkans and some of the ex-Soviet republics.
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Lime was originally shipped as quick-lime and was a particularly dangerous cargo.
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Networking on planes is particularly dangerous .
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Many of the manifestations of this passionate interest in ceremonial and precedence were not particularly dangerous .
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Despite its rough-hewn reputation, the street is not a particularly dangerous spot these days, according to Merrill.
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A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis.
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This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down.
positively
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It is either tautologous, positively dangerous , unoriginal or highly ambiguous.
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With the long carry over the beach to the fairway, it looked positively dangerous .
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High tide is often positively dangerous , with vicious dumping waves breaking on the steep slope of the upper beach.
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Suddenly, the mild-mannered little man didn't look green any more - he looked positively dangerous .
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Relying on tablets for the relief of pain without trying to discover its cause can be positively dangerous .
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This can be positively dangerous , if only because such practitioners may not recognise when a person is seriously ill.
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But the unpleasant reality is that some holiday destinations are positively dangerous .
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Indeed I think it is positively dangerous to hold negative feelings in.
potentially
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Failure to share information is potentially dangerous .
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The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda.
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I agree with you that it's not right to call your son names, and that slapping him is potentially dangerous .
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Gradually the voluntary churches thus came to be safety valves for society, means of draining potentially dangerous conflict into harmless channels.
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They are also prominent in investigating potentially dangerous occurrences in the day's routine.
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Similar protection is provided against many other potentially dangerous organisms in the environment.
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How can we attract players to the sport if a top class player is advocating potentially dangerous play?
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In addition, it seems no public warnings were issued about the addition of this potentially dangerous chemical.
so
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Some people say that lurking in its depths is a fish so dangerous that oarsmen venture out at their peril.
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In 1955 it became so dangerous it had to be dynamited.
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I know the rats are a worry because they are so dangerous and can contaminate food.
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That is one of the things that makes secret operations so seductive and so dangerous .
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The Gods are never so dangerous as when they wake from sleep.
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He seems so second-rate, so superficial, so shallow-and thus so dangerous .
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No - surely they'd never commit something so dangerous even to a Company Spiderline.
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In his mind, at least, Max sails off to an island inhabited by monstrous but not so dangerous creatures.
too
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He would not give me his address in Barcelona - it would be too dangerous for us to meet again.
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With its ability to sound the call of slave revolt across the miles, it was simply too dangerous to exist.
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Have you ever tried to reach a summit when in retrospect you've realised that the conditions were too dangerous ?
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Taking the camels out to graze was too dangerous for his men, he said.
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Croft did what Croft always does and pushed the ball through slowly and deliberately, getting sideways turn but nothing too dangerous .
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It must be too dangerous up there now.
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Like me. Too dangerous if Brimmer thought we were backing out.
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He had also considered the use of high pressure steam but dismissed it as too dangerous .
very
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You have a creative streak-\#very dangerous when coupled with empathy.
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But this leaves some very dangerous and experienced experts without a job.
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The soldiers were both terrified and amused at this very dangerous snake wriggling around, and eventually, they dispatched it.
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This bizarre combat is a very dangerous one - refer to the Profiles section.
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She laughed and said that, yes, it was very dangerous but what to do?
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The streets of pre-industrial London were very dangerous , and there was no effective system of street-lighting nor a police force.
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The thing is, left in the wrong hands, truth can be very , very dangerous .
■ NOUN
chemical
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They say that because the chalk's porous, dangerous chemicals could seep into groundwater below.
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In addition, it seems no public warnings were issued about the addition of this potentially dangerous chemical .
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Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio A drum of dangerous chemicals has been stolen from a factory store.
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No scientist is careless enough to handle dangerous chemicals or substances without suitable protection.
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A mere 66 hold dangerous chemicals .
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He said he had earned an international reputation, particularly in his work on the transportation of dangerous chemicals .
driving
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He: Vowed again that he would increase the top penalty for causing death by dangerous driving to ten years.
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Read in studio A man has appeared in court accused of causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving .
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The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders.
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One of them, who's fifteen, is also charged with dangerous driving .
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The procurator-fiscal insisted on pressing the more serious charge of killing some one by dangerous driving , while being drunk.
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He's charged with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to stop and report an accident and driving with excess alcohol.
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If their driving is hazardous enough they can be charged with dangerous driving and tried before magistrates or even a crown court.
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Chapman, of Billericay, admitted dangerous driving after drinking twice the legal limit.
drug
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Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio Police fear thieves are now stealing to order for body builders who want dangerous drugs .
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Although no one was home, police said the officers were expecting to confront armed and dangerous drug dealers inside the house.
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Crack is a dangerous drug because it is initially very addictive and because of its enormous financial cost.
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He was then, still, under the hegemony of dangerous drugs as he had been, for nearly a decade.
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In fact, it has no medical value whatever and it is an extremely dangerous drug to have lying around.
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Gone, it seems, are the days when rock stars caused major scandals by being caught with dangerous drugs .
ground
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Second, that any official who ignores them is on dangerous ground .
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They must also enter the dangerous ground of anticipating the techniques which might be available in the future.
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Here we are on dangerous ground , though.
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I release my safety belt to hold you, dangerous ground , ground where my feet have wings of flame.
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Probably because for Marc it was dangerous ground .
level
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Thick smoke and dangerous levels of carbon monoxide prevented rescuers from reaching trapped men.
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If something goes awry, more than five billion people would be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
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Once again Lewis's inability to produce a consistently dangerous level of aggression was exposed.
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It also raises to higher and more dangerous levels the problems associated with the long pattern of appeasement.
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We tested the pond water and discovered dangerous levels of nitrite.
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Beluga populations are also in many places suspected to be at dangerous levels after years of overexploitation.
man
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He says is a dangerous man .
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He was the most dangerous man of the three.
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A dangerous man , and a man who lived eternally in danger.
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A very dangerous man with his racism, his anti-Castro crusades.
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The Prince is a dangerous man .
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Tibbetts and Walker are very dangerous men .
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He was a very clever, very dangerous man .
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He was a dangerous man to work for, was George, but he was a survivor.
place
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Sniffing alone or in dangerous places , such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky.
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New York is a dangerous place .
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It was always a safe bet, of course, that Hillsborough would be just about the least dangerous place in Britain yesterday.
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The world is an increasingly complicated and dangerous place , they say.
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The forests are wild and dangerous places , although there are towns and innumerable villages situated within the woodlands.
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A war zone is a dangerous place to be even in the ab-sence of combat.
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He crossed one of the world's most dangerous places , the Empty Quarter in southern Arabia, twice.
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The ship was put back on her course and the winds sped her away from the dangerous place .
precedent
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In the current climate the referendum has created a dangerous precedent .
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For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent .
situation
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During my stay in her country we were always together, and she saved me from many dangerous situations .
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What you see is a dangerous situation which could turn into a threat.
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They decided to write a letter to Angel Clare, to inform him of the dangerous situation his wife was in.
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Nevertheless, there were times when he shocked me by his willingness to jump into dangerous situations .
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He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation .
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This, it was recognized, constituted a potentially dangerous situation , but what else could the Romans do?
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However this is a dangerous situation since there will be insufficient energy in the system to stop the model and land.
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The means it chose to address this dangerous situation were reasonably calculated to advance the general welfare.
substance
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Protect your hands with rubber gloves because it can be a dangerous substance in such a concentrated form.
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Others might think it takes a controlled dangerous substance or shock therapy.
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Dangers to the general public can also arise at fairgrounds, demolition sites or from the carrying of dangerous substances by road.
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Also, since this reaction does not use tritium, it does not require the manufacture or transportation of this dangerous substance .
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There was also a debate about what would happen to the most dangerous substances in the Windscale cocktail, particularly plutonium.
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Because Britain has been covered, during the last few weeks, with record levels of toxic and other dangerous substances .
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Even outside a nuclear weapon it is a highly dangerous substance - fatal to humans if ingested in even minute quantities.
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Microwave cooking creates potentially dangerous substances in baby milk which may damage the brain, liver and kidneys, doctors said.
thing
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Can too much knowledge be a dangerous thing ?
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They carried on for another month, every night inspecting to see how dangerous things had gotten.
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But to sell those flowers long ago, it could be a dangerous thing to do.
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But selective memory can be a dangerous thing .
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But clothes are very dangerous things , Especially for wealthy kings.
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During such desperate times people do a lot of crazy, dangerous things .
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You do dangerous things and take them in your stride just for starters.
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In fact, a tinkering government is a dangerous thing .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dangerous drugs such as heroin and crack
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a dangerous dog
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a dangerous neighborhood
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It's dangerous work but for men like Clement, summer firefighting is an important source of income.
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It's too dangerous for the kids to play in the street.
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It is dangerous to assume that share prices will continue to rise.
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Neil thought the man looked dangerous .
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Police described the three escaped prisoners as highly dangerous .
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Snow and ice are making driving conditions very dangerous .
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The pilot says it's too dangerous to try to land the plane in this weather.
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Using humor in a job interview is a dangerous thing - you never know how the interviewer will react.
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Women felt that complaining about sexual harrassment was dangerous , as there was always the threat of losing their jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Air bags are exceedingly fast, which can be dangerous to infants and elderly passengers.
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At least the man was wise enough to know how dangerous he was.
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He was cowardly and dangerous , and obviously very good at his job.
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It is either tautologous, positively dangerous , unoriginal or highly ambiguous.
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Not a dangerous disposition I think; though it might be if my nature were more masculine & daring.
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Now the surface was so slack that it was becoming dangerous .
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Today the judge dismissed reports from two psychiatrists who said they did not believe Bourgois was dangerous .
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Working conditions for adults, who earned about $ 3 a day, were also dangerous .