Example sentences of "[prep] protecting [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 2 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |
| 3 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 4 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 5 | She had an arm permanently bruised from protecting herself from beatings . |
| 6 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 7 | They are responsible for the complete replication of the extreme ends of chromosomal molecules and contribute to chromosome stability in protecting them from exonucleolytic degradation and end to end fusion events ( 2 ) . |
| 8 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 9 | Society has an interest in protecting itself from activities which threaten to undermine the harmony within it . |
| 10 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |