Example sentences of "protect themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , the men who wo n't talk to you think they 're just protecting themselves . |
| 2 | The people from whom the trade protection associations of 1818 were protecting themselves , were smaller in number and simpler in their wants than their 1918 counterparts . |
| 3 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 4 | But protecting themselves against the deadly virus by practising safer sex is another matter . |
| 5 | Another possibility is that , by looking like a hawk , cuckoos are protecting themselves from predation — a hawk is less likely to attack another hawk than some other , easier prey . |
| 6 | Few of the settlements in Palestine have any means of protecting themselves , and so they are sometimes attacked by armed Arabs . |
| 7 | ‘ If the police are not seen to protect us , then people might start protecting themselves . |
| 8 | But this does not stop people instinctively protecting themselves and kin substitutes . |
| 9 | Andrew Neil , editor of the Sunday Times , described it as a ‘ busybody 's charter ’ and added that while the MPs said they were trying to protect small people they were really protecting themselves . |
| 10 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 11 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 12 | Ivy-covered or not , universities had once protected themselves as if by walls from the outside gaze ; effortlessly so , on the whole , since for centuries the world beyond had little curiosity about them , they cost the taxpayer nothing , and their inmates were proverbially remote and ineffectual . |
| 13 | Bengali families in the East End feel they have no protection and that they must begin to protect themselves . |
| 14 | To protect themselves during their winter slumbers , they build nests . |
| 15 | Much to the alarm of narcotics agents , cultivation is spreading as farmers seek cash to protect themselves from the hardships of war . |
| 16 | The White House seemed unaware that not only were there no hostages , but that the trapped Americans were heavily-armed , elite troops trained to protect themselves in just such circumstances . |
| 17 | And even with a larger army , the Saudis do not seem to think that they would be able to protect themselves . |
| 18 | Several laws have been passed in modern times to restrict dangerous activities and to impose criminal sanctions on citizens who fail to protect themselves against injury — for example , the offences of failing to wear a safety helmet when riding a motor cycle , and failing to wear a safety harness when travelling in the front seat of a car . |
| 19 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 20 | The Tsars , the Habsburgs and the Ottomans sought to rationalize and industrialize their ramshackle empires in order to protect themselves against the expansionism of the modern West European State . |
| 21 | Tying pillows to their heads with towels to protect themselves from the larger falling lumps , they set off . |
| 22 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 23 | Many businesses think they can do nothing to protect themselves — but Barclays offers well-proven ways to limit damage which no business can afford to ignore . |
| 24 | The banks themselves must weigh up lending costs and risks , and in many cases will seek to protect themselves by requesting some form of security , e.g. property deeds , bonds , stocks , etc. , from the borrower . |
| 25 | At this point , Christians need to protect themselves against over-reaction . |
| 26 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |
| 27 | Failing the development of a vaccine for human beings to protect themselves against malaria , or a ‘ one-shot ’ radical drug , or a long-lasting preventative medicine , the control of the mosquito vector must produce the greatest benefit to the greatest number in the shortest time . |
| 28 | They would need clothing and shelter for the extremes of weather , and weaponry to protect themselves from the wild animals and hostile tribes which roamed the desolate regions they were to visit . |
| 29 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 30 | So plants , quite naturally , have the ability to protect themselves from predators , just as all other creatures do . |