Example sentences of "protect [pn reflx] against [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door is closed to new members , and the membership protects itself against what it calls Proliferation with wire , guns , attack dogs , certainly , but above all with a suffocating cloak of secrecy . |
| 2 | Because this time we will take measures to protect ourselves against your duplicity . ’ |
| 3 | — The right hon. Gentleman does not need a fig leaf to protect himself against my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover , he needs a suit of armour . |
| 4 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 5 | Cynics — who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed — may ridicule you . |
| 6 | One obvious answer is that they want to protect themselves against their own tendency to act rashly , in the heat of passion . |
| 7 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |