frightening aspect

collocation in English

meaningsoffrighteningandaspect

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frightening
adjective
uk
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/
making you ...
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aspect
noun
uk
/ˈæs.pekt/us
/ˈæs.pekt/
one part of a situation, problem, ...
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(Definition offrighteningandaspectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The mostfrighteningaspectof the investigations is the number of police officers who have been accused of participating in organised crime.
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Thefrighteningaspectof the matter is the way in which assessments are arrived at.
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Thefrighteningaspectof that recent development is that only religious workers operate in the area, which continues to act as a battleground.
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Many disabilities are not visible and that is perhaps the mostfrighteningaspectfor other people.
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Anotherfrighteningaspectis the number of redundancies in manufacturing industry.
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That is thefrighteningaspectabout the present industrial scene.
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Apart from the physical and mental suffering which this abominable system imposes, there is afrighteningaspectof cost.
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Perhaps the mostfrighteningaspectof all of this is that the situation is not improving.
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But the reallyfrighteningaspectof the figures is the fall of £3·6 billion in public expenditure on industry, trade and the nationalised industries.
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Perhaps the mostfrighteningaspectof the past few days was to note how close to the surface the bitterness still was.
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Finally, there are the dangers to liberty, which constitute the mostfrighteningaspectof the six regulations.
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In conclusion, the mostfrighteningaspectof the further trouble that we can anticipate is that the men of violence know that such further trouble will take place.
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That is thefrighteningaspect.
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If the trend of recent years is anything to go by—and this is thefrighteningaspect—the cost of the agricultural budget will reach nearly £10,000 million in 1982.
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I mention one of the most frightening aspects of the proposal.
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One of the frightening aspects of the matter is that they are stumbling into it semi-blind; they have not thought about it.
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We do not want to over-stress the frightening aspects of illness to anyone, particularly to the young.
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Those figures represent one of the most frightening aspects of the present financial state of local government.
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That is one of the frightening aspects of farming: you have no control of your own destiny.
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There is no known antidote, and the absence of a cure is one of its most frightening aspects.
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