11.   He did not want to run the risk of being brushed off.

12.   However, Merrill Lynch is running the risk of suffering a substantial loss if the Market price holds on to any substantial premium.

13.   If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped.

14.   If you fail to pay your bill, you run the risk of having your electricity supply cut off.

15.   In less dramatic contexts many of us already run such risks.

16.   Pitch your bid too high and you run the risk of driving your opponent away from the negotiating table.

17.   Teachers ran the risk of looking like idiots or liars.

18.   The falsificationist demands that theories be stated with sufficient clarity to run the risk of falsification.

19.   To adopt too critical or enquiring a position at this stage would be to run the risk of alienation.