Example sentences of "to defend [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these latter cases , it will be difficult to defend as comment unless it clearly appears as a mere expression of opinion which a fair-minded man could honestly infer from the facts upon which the comment is said to based . |
| 2 | We need to defend as a unit . |
| 3 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 4 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 5 | THE six ‘ safe areas ’ that America and its allies have promised to defend for Bosnia 's Muslims look anything but safe . |
| 6 | In the latest Jane 's Defence Weekly , he says this discovery ‘ ca n't be anything but bad news to forces planning to defend against these tanks with current anti-tank weapons ’ . |
| 7 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 8 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 9 | Trying to defend against an all out nuclear attack would be virtually impossible . |
| 10 | He has also been ordered to defend against Ireland 's Dave McAuley . |
| 11 | They had ordered Bowe to defend against Lewis or be stripped of his title but Bowe told yesterday 's press conference : ‘ Today will be remembered as an historic day in boxing . |
| 12 | Regan has been ordered by the European Boxing Union to defend against Dave McAuley , the former IBF world champion . |
| 13 | The Captain held his sword blade upright , almost at the salute , to show that he was neither menacing Sharpe nor trying to defend against him . |
| 14 | The manoeuvrability of the leopard stance : the student can , by use of deft footwork in which all the weight is centred on the back leg , spring forwards , backwards and sideways to defend against attack from any angle . |
| 15 | The sifu demonstrates a full head-on tiger claw attack ; the ripping and gouging movements make it very hard to defend against . |
| 16 | Constant movement makes it easier both to initiate attacks and to defend against them . |
| 17 | Not only is your freedom to defend against attack greatly restricted , but if you step out of the permitted fighting area you will be penalised . |
| 18 | Creating a climate of trust and reliability within staff groups and between staff and senior staff , where management can be experienced as a kind of co-operative bank to draw on rather than a persecutor to defend against , will be a central task . |
| 19 | Magic bullets are antibodies — proteins that are produced naturally in the body to defend against disease . |
| 20 | The supposedly irritable elderly person is often the one who has had the gall to defend against such ( often unintended ) ‘ put-downs ’ . |
| 21 | The WBC has given its belt to Britain 's Lennox Lewis because of Bowe 's refusal to defend against Lewis within a prescribed time . |
| 22 | The rich have greater incentive to oppose redistributive policies in that they have much more to lose , and there are arguments that suggest that risk-averse individuals are keener to defend against a loss than to secure a gain ( see Jones and Cullis 1986 ) . |
| 23 | And if the appeal does n't give Swindon its million pounds , it 'll leave a bitter taste when they have to defend against Hoddle 's playing skills in the Premier League next season . |
| 24 | Another option is to go to America to defend against Toney victim , Iran Barkley . |
| 25 | THE South African government and the opposition African National Congress yesterday sought to defend against ferocious attack the agreement they have reached to share governmental power until the end of the century . |
| 26 | Lewis added : ‘ But I do n't think Holyfield will take a chance by coming to London to defend against me . |
| 27 | ‘ But I do n't think Holyfield would take a chance by coming to London to defend against me . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're not paid to defend like that . |
| 29 | Now the architect is faced with a five-figure claim which will cost several thousand pounds to defend with no insurance company behind him . |
| 30 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |