The phrase "a substantial risk that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the likelihood of a negative outcome or event occurring, particularly in contexts such as finance, health, or safety.
Example: "There is a substantial risk that the project will exceed its budget if we do not implement stricter cost controls."
Alternatives: "a significant chance that" or "a considerable likelihood that".
While shared ownership may well be the most promising route into home ownership for many, there are substantial risks for those taking that route.
The law concerns "aggravated felonies," a term that includes any offense "that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense".
But many organisations, including universities and research councils, treat lone fieldwork as a substantial risk that should be avoided if possible.
Mr. Khan's lawyers claim that "there is a substantial risk that the torture evidence will disappear".
But there is a substantial risk that the decline in foreign thrift will come too slowly.
"There is a substantial risk that you don't get anything back," he said.
The law in question in the case defines "aggravated felonies" — which require automatic deportation under federal immigration law — as crimes in which "substantial risk that physical force may be used".
Goldman's huddles, the S.E.C. said, "created a serious and substantial risk that analysts would share material, nonpublic information concerning their published research" with major clients.
But he was not satisfied that there was a real and substantial risk that enforcement of any court order, if Ahmad succeeded in his claim, would be prejudiced by insolvency.
The measures are used in terrorism cases and other high-profile ones when authorities say there is substantial risk that a defendant's communications "could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others.
The charge of criminally negligent homicide indicates that investigators determined that the girl had failed to perceive the substantial risk that a reasonable person under the same circumstances would have perceived: that the baby could be killed by being wrapped so completely in a towel.
