alarming prospect

collocation in English

meaningsofalarmingandprospect

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alarming
adjective
uk
/əˈlɑː.mɪŋ/us
/əˈlɑːr.mɪŋ/
causing worry ...
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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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(Definition ofalarmingandprospectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It may be that the thought of younger users having such power was, for some respondents, analarmingprospect.
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I accept that that is analarmingprospectfor treasurers of voluntary bodies.
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If that is to continue for any length of time, it is analarmingprospect.
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That is analarmingprospect, because applying for parole plays a vital part in a prisoner's life.
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I was rather terrified, as a countryman, at thealarmingprospectof 120,000 volts being turned on to a farmhouse.
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It seems to me to be analarmingprospect.
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I find that to be rather analarmingprospect.
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In addition to local authorities' anxiety, thealarmingprospectof rate capping is on the horizon.
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There was a prospect, and a veryalarmingprospect, of serious competition in naval programmes.
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I think that raises analarmingprospectfor the future, and those are some of the reasons for raising this subject to-day.
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For an island nation that is analarmingprospect.
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There is no morealarmingprospectthan that.
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We already face thealarmingprospectof retrospective interference in freely negotiated contracts to enforce the sale of assets.
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It would empower it to start forming partnerships engaging in commercial activities, and that would be analarmingprospect.
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I think it is a veryalarmingprospectthat we could have rogue use by a rogue state selling nuclear technology to rogue elements.
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He held out analarmingprospectof what might happen.
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We face the ratheralarmingprospectof one quango reporting to another.
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I do not think that we need regard this as a particularlyalarmingprospect.
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The need for insurance cover is analarmingprospectfor tenants who opt for do-it-yourself repairs.
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Some will find the notion of a private nuclear power station a quitealarmingprospect.
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