Example sentences of "protect from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , he complained : ‘ The whole row is based on a false assumption : that as readers we need to be protected from the disappointing facts about the lives of writers , if we are to continue to admire their work . |
| 2 | All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’ |
| 3 | They are now to be taken under the jurisdiction of the Queen , who is determined that they will be protected from the emotional mayhem currently being created by their parents . |
| 4 | With a soft sigh she buried her face in his shoulder , wishing she could simply stay there forever , warm , cocooned , protected from the outside world . |
| 5 | Our Balinese house has no doors , walls or windows and is protected from the occasional horizontal rain by dense surrounding vegetation , and by reed blinds which can be lowered to the floors . |
| 6 | Regarding the first theme , it is claimed that the provision of welfare by state monopolies leads to waste since they are protected from the efficiency-inducing pressure of market competition . |
| 7 | Pressure groups demanded reassurances that the poor and elderly would be protected from the extra cost of heating their homes . |
| 8 | As the embodiment of a higher law , it thus not only needs to be distinguished from ordinary law but also needs to be protected from the passing whims of politicians — hence the introduction of extraordinary procedures for its amendment . |
| 9 | The vegetation within , protected from the dry air , begins to decay and the mound starts to warm . |
| 10 | But in the disclaimer his children need above all to be protected from the ghastly consequences of their own actions . |
| 11 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 12 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 13 | They should be sited on bare earth ( not concrete ) and protected from the prevailing wind . |
| 14 | The front of the house was protected from the prevailing south-westerlies by the low hill and there were no loopholes at the back for the northerly gales to penetrate . |
| 15 | The animals that received the PDGF-secreting COS cells were protected from the anti-proliferative effects of nerve transection ( Fig. 3 ) , whereas animals that received nontransfected COS cells were not ( data not shown ) . |
| 16 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 17 | He was deep in shadow now , protected from the direct glare of the car headlights by the stone portal of a doorway . |
| 18 | Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze showed that the USSR had not forgotten the ZOPFAN impulse in informing Sitthi that ‘ there can be no calm or stability in a region in which there exist foreign military bases and which is not protected from the military rivalry of non-regional powers ’ . |
| 19 | Second , that to carry out this task the teams needed to be protected from the everyday pressures of casework . |
| 20 | The charter calls for a government-funded airport security system protected from the commercial pressures of privatisation and from the contracting-out of essential services . |
| 21 | The speculation has brought a renewed call for members of the Royal family to be protected from the continual scandal surrounding the tapes . |
| 22 | The speculation has brought a renewed call for members of the Royal family to be protected from the continual scandal surrounding the tapes . |
| 23 | In the field he found his prayer book , protected from the pouring rain by a dove that sat upon it with wings outspread . |
| 24 | If they traverse a patch of sunshine , the soldiers link legs and form a roof over the path so that the workers , who are less well armoured , are protected from the damaging heat . |
| 25 | Root Package Password If the above root package is password protected from the specified user , then a password may need to be specified for the LIFESPAN modules to be accessed , if the specified user is not in the same user branch as the module manager or a special link does NOT exist between the two . |
| 26 | protected from the flung |
| 27 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 28 | Very sensitive to cold air , must cover their mouths to protect from the cold air . |