Example sentences of "[adv] protect [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 2 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 3 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 4 | A big hat : with a brim large enough to protect you from the sun and the eyes of the curious , thus allowing you to look enigmatic when you 're merely asleep . |
| 5 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 6 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 7 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 8 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 9 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |
| 10 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 11 | leather-covered armchair , the back of which is extended to form a hood over the occupant 's head , thus protecting him from draughts in the hallway of a mansion , where the chair would be situated . |
| 12 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 13 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 14 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 15 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 16 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 17 | The site is under military guard , ostensibly to protect it from attack by anti-government rebels of the New People 's Army . |
| 18 | When a government uses repressive secrecy laws more to protect itself from criticism than to protect the nation from foreign danger , then political citizenship is abridged . |
| 19 | Papa had always protected her from such things . |
| 20 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
| 21 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 22 | We must protect children from abuse of this type but we must also protect them from abuse by the system . |
| 23 | Apart from rendering patients asymptomatic , earlier treatment with a gluten free diet might also protect them from developing malignant complications in old age . |
| 24 | Safer sex can also protect you from other sexually transmitted diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease , cervical cancer , herpes and chlamydia , and of course unwanted pregnancy , so it does have other advantages for us in terms of our sexual health and future well being . |
| 25 | These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel , presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain . |
| 26 | A Dutch holding company is not taxed on disposals of its subsidiaries , and the Dutch treaty network often protects it from tax on the disposal in the subsidiary 's country . |
| 27 | An extreme and exceptional case is the small community outside the fort of Phasis in the province of Cappadocia , which was fortified by the governor solely to protect it from assault by invading Alans in the mid second century . |
| 28 | The mercantilist , bureaucratic Peruvian government — and by extension , that of many Third World countries — has created a subtle system of economic apartheid , where the poor are legally kept from any upward social mobility while the rich legally protect themselves from anything that threatens their social standing . |
| 29 | Gloves or shoes would effectively protect one from the effects . |
| 30 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |