Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to protect [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 2 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
| 3 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 4 | Its hard , tight-fitting husks act as armour to protect it from pests and diseases — a boon to farmers who do not want to use pesticides . |
| 5 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 6 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 7 | Bob Hopkins quotes the view ( see Church Planting II , Grove Books , page 21 ) that the parish boundary at its worst is ‘ a line drawn round thousands of people to protect them from hearing the Gospel . ’ |
| 8 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 9 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 10 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 11 | Some parishes followed this peripatetic approach , using a trestle table to facilitate mobility ; others , however , preferred to keep the table permanently in the middle of the chancel , sometimes surrounding it with rails to protect it from dogs . |
| 12 | To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building . |
| 13 | The load area is lined with plywood to protect it from scrapes and knocks and a full-height ply bulkhead protects the driver from flying parcels if he has to brake heavily . |
| 14 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 15 | Wrap your plants in newspaper to protect them from draughts and to stop leaves bruising . |
| 16 | Her party dress was alongside , bagged in polythene to protect it from dust . |
| 17 | Imperial Airways built a fort for passengers and planes in Persia to protect them from unwelcome visits by local tribesmen . |
| 18 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
| 19 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 20 | Vélez was on a list of judges ( jueces sin rostro ) whose identity had been kept hidden in order to protect them from such attacks and to encourage their independence . |
| 21 | If , for many years , tears have been frozen in order to protect us from intense pain , the process of thawing out may require great delicacy and sensitivity . |
| 22 | Varnishing is the final application of a varnish which is applied to a finished painting in order to protect it from pollution . |
| 23 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 24 | He published Directions for Bringing over Seeds and Plants from the East Indies and other Distant Countries in a State of Vegetation ( 1770 ) and one method he favoured was to coat seeds in wax to protect them from extreme temperatures . |
| 25 | The first Singapore station , Cluny Road , was a long brick building on stilts to protect it from flooding . |
| 26 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 27 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 28 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |