Subject

• deforestation: Yet all this is threatened by deforestation to make room to grow soya beans.

Object

• viability: Occlusive disease and the resulting ischemia threaten the viability of the lower limb, particularly in diabetics.

• specie: These included 18 of the 24 globally threatened species known from Paraguay.

• survival: By buying these items you may be threatening the survival of the local wildlife.

• stability: She is the goddess who threatens stability and order.

• existence: Threats to the site: Heavy poaching since 1996 threatens the existence of the free herd.

• integrity: Only by artificial means, which threaten the integrity of the service, can a parasitic form of competition make inroads.

Preposition: with

• extinction: Much of the world's wildlife is threatened with extinction, including one quarter of the mammal species.

• homelessness: The Council has a duty to find accommodation for some people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.

• deportation: Gloria Mills of Unison stressed the importance of trade union support for members threatened with deportation.

• eviction: The Battle of the Braes occurred when they were threatened with eviction and was reported in the press.

• closure: This may require the occupation of plants threatened with rapid closure.

• expulsion: While at Girton she was threatened with expulsion after she had another woman staying in her rooms.

Preposition: at

• gunpoint: More than 70 operating outside the pool system were arrested, detained, threatened at gunpoint or chased from the front line.

Infinitive complement

• sue: His former boss Frank Lynch has threaten to sue West Midlands Police over the issue.

• overwhelm: Many of the crippling and fatal diseases globally are threatening to overwhelm third world countries.

• undermine: She also said major implementation problems threatened to undermine the policy.

• resign: What type of a company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they give you what you're worth?

• destroy: It threatened to destroy the islands with a swish of its tail.

• kill: Many codes of practice would support the breaking of confidentiality in the case where a client is threatening to kill somebody or themselves.