Run_risk : risk-94












[22 : Somebody ----s PP ]
[26 : Somebody ----s that CLAUSE ]
[33 : Somebody ----s VERB-ing ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Protagonist) V () PP[by] (Action) NP (Asset)
NP (Protagonist) V () VPing (Action) NP (Asset)
NP (Action) V () NP (Bad_outcome)
NP (Protagonist) V () 2nd (Action) NP (Bad_outcome) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () PP[for] (Action) NP (Bad_outcome)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) PP[for] (Beneficiary)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) AVP (Frequency) Sub (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) AVP (Iterations)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) PP[in] (Purpose)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Asset) PP[for] (Purpose) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) Sub (Circumstances)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) AVP (Explanation) AVP (Frequency)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) AVP (Frequency)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) NP (Iterations) AVP (Place)
NP (Bad_outcome) V () AVP (Iterations) CNI (Protagonist)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) PP[on] (Iterations) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Protagonist) V () NP (Bad_outcome) AVP (Time)
NP (Protagonist) V () VPing (Bad_outcome) PP[until] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () that (Eventuality) S ()
NP (Agent) V () S_ING (Theme) NP (Protagonist) V () INI (Action)
NP (Protagonist) V () DNI (Bad_outcome)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Pivot)


Examples from WordNet


When you buy these stocks you are gambling
She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong
We risked losing a lot of money in this venture
Why risk your life?



Examples from VerbNet


I risked my job.
I risked that I would get into trouble.
I risk smoking.



Examples from SemCor


`` I am consciously prepared to run the continued risk of' race suicide by_accident' rather_than accept the alternative certainty of race slavery by_design.
You 're the one that 's taking the big chance''.
They were reluctant to appoint sheriffs to protect the property, thus running_the_risk of creating disturbances such_as that on the Vermejo, and yet the cowboys protested that they got no salary for arresting cattle_thieves and running_the_risk of being shot.
The_most frequent excuse for the prevalence of unoriginals and tested imports is increasing production expense- producers cannot afford to take_chances.
( b) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.
I just can n't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together&&&''.
Mr._Podger took_no_chances.
Can the church risk assuming that the`` folly'' of men is as dear to God as their`` wisdom'', or, as is also commonly implied, that`` the foolishness of God'' and`` the foolishness of men'' are simply two ways of talking_about the same thing?
But now apparently the job of Secretary of Labor requires that he be willing to risk his reputation as a prognosticator of unemployment trends.
Whereas, John_Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper:
It was predicted that Kohnstamm-negative subjects would adhere to more liberal, concretistic reports of_what the ambiguous figure`` looked_like'' as reflecting their hesitancy about taking_chances.
But the Communists never gave sufficient provocation at any one_time for the United_States to want to risk a limited or an all-out war over Laos.
When necessary, we should make it clear that countries which choose to derive marginal advantages from the cold_war or to exploit their potential for disrupting the security of the world will lose our sympathy but also risk their own prospects for orderly development.
It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.
The only contrary action, in_the_future as in_the_past, runs the risk of war; and, now and in_the_future unlike in_the_past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of_it will, by human_action, render this planet less habitable by the human_race.
She decided to risk it.
When Fred_Powell 's brother-in-law, Charlie_Keane, moved_into the dead man 's home, the anonymous letter_writer took no chances on Charlie taking_up where Fred had left_off and wasted no time on a first notice:
Yet he must chance it.
Landesco thought him`` just a superior sort of plugugly'' but he was, in_fact, with his aggression and hostility, and nerveless indifference to risking or administering pain, a casebook psychopath.
As_long_as audiences came to see the movement, there seemed little reason to adventure further.
`` You 'll just have to risk it.
all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as_good_as those elsewhere.
But it is our health- more precious than all the money in the world- that these modern witch_doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.
`` I ai taking no goddamned chances for no Jew business''.
`` It is worse for a nation to give_in to evil than to run the risk of annihilation''.