Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scandals like these have prompted other firms to provide services aimed at protecting their performers . |
| 2 | The company believes the new interface helps users to take advantage of new technologies at their own pace , while protecting their investments in applications , data and training . |
| 3 | He points to the growth of unionism among junior doctors as evidence of their need to move beyond professionalism as a market strategy for protecting their interests . |
| 4 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 5 | Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators , — mostly other fish . |
| 6 | No wonder the goalies wear those protective face-masks ( they also come in useful for protecting their identities when they go around hacking people up on Summer camps ) . |
| 7 | Elderly people with mental impairment who can no longer manage their own affairs may need assistance from a social worker in protecting their finances by consultation with the Court of Protection , under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 8 | It is alarming that one quarter of women in this country still lie in the sun without protecting their skin . |
| 9 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 10 | Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply . |
| 11 | Partly this is a matter of protecting their expertise : any fool can claim generic he is sexist , but only the linguist can explain it is really ‘ unmarked ’ . |
| 12 | Is n't it high time the NCCL thought of protecting their rights ? |
| 13 | Even in the United States where farmers have the most sophisticated means of protecting their crops , insects claim over ten per cent of them . |
| 14 | social — caring for , providing opportunities and protecting their child . |
| 15 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 16 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 17 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 18 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 19 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 20 | Rahier told Chemistry in Britain that the SAGB has adopted the position that everything should be patentable , including transgenic plants , so that companies could be sure of protecting their investment . |
| 21 | Computer manufacturers have a continuing problem of protecting their investment in programming and yet persuading their customers to transfer to new computers . |
| 22 | It is a production bogged down by a Brussels-like bureaucracy , from the union dominated actions of the orchestra ( whose buzzing watch-alarms alert them to a coffee break mid- aria ) to the backstabbing officials protecting their patch with petty politics . |
| 23 | As crime goes up , people see it as a way of protecting their property do n't they |
| 24 | The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest . |
| 25 | Credit Management apologises to Infocheck and Infolink for transposing their names on page 8 of last month 's issue . |
| 26 | By launching their cruise missiles , US and NATO commanders would hope that , at best , the Soviet Union might sue for peace , and , at worst , that the West could gain a few extra days when its conventional ( non-nuclear ) forces might be able to stem the tide . |
| 27 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 28 | HMIs have clearly sensed that in launching their series of studies , even if their highly focused character may convey the subliminal message that they are interested more in mechanisms and techniques than in broader perspectives . |
| 29 | BORDON 'S successful new Charities Shop in the Elizabeth Dibben Centre will be launching their spring and summer collection from Monday , along with the chance to buy a special knitted Easter duckling . |
| 30 | Victorian parents have been condemned for clothing their children in black for months on end , and putting even babies into mourning . |