Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] protect [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 2 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 3 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 4 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 5 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 6 | All sailors throughout the year need light , waterproof anoraks to protect them from the chilling effect of light spray in strong winds . |
| 7 | It contains wonderful substances like Secretory IgA , which literally coats the baby 's gut with an antiseptic paint to protect it from bugs . |
| 8 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 9 | Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses . |
| 10 | Polgar rations their appearances in a natural wish to protect them from the media . |
| 11 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 12 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 13 | Self-worth motivated children protect themselves from the risk of failure on a high status task ; they maintain that they could succeed , but see no point in making the effort . |
| 14 | The wildest , emptiest part of the country — where cauldrons still hang over kitchen fires and shepherds ' dogs wear studded collars to protect them from wolves — is the high , craggy Beira Alta area , where Sabugueiro and Manteigas make great bases for walking . |
| 15 | ‘ These clothes protect you from radioactive dust , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 19 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |
| 20 | He mantled his wings automatically ant thrust his head forward aggressively , obeying a deep instinct to protect himself from danger . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , as Europe 's electronics companies demand that the European Commission protect them from Japanese competition , NEC is thinking of taking a stake in Groupe Bull , France 's loss-making state-owned computer maker . |
| 22 | More recently we have learnt that the functioning of the immune system , that exquisitely coordinated mechanism protecting us from disease , is intimately tied in to levels of stress . |
| 23 | The capacity of the gastric mucosa to protect itself from injury is determined by many factors , and aggravation of experimental injury as seen after sensory nerve ablation , may result either from impairment of mucosal defence or retardation of rapid repair or both . |
| 24 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 25 | So the next two days were spent in readying and arming a mixed squadron of available craft , merchanters all , but every one necessarily accustomed to using defensive artillery to protect themselves from the English pirates who infested the Norse Sea . |
| 26 | Some people very frightened of their homosexual leanings may consciously or unconsciously enter a defensive marriage to protect themselves from these feelings . |
| 27 | Webs of bilateral deals protect them from the full brunt of competition . |
| 28 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 29 | If war in Europe seems likely , trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect them from attack . |
| 30 | 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 . |