Example sentences of "protect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 2 | Mutoh et al showed that intracellular glutathione was mainly responsible for protecting against gastric cell injury induced by ethanol . |
| 3 | So far their almost daily antics have included a variety of canny offensives — successfully protecting against unsympathetic judges in rape trials , filling the White House garden with tennis balls covered in facts and figures of women 's oppression plus the odd rude rad fem slogan , and sending Jane Fonda 's husband , TV mogul Ted Turner , a ‘ We Are Watching ’ letter about his refusal to show pro-choice ads on his channel ( although it shows all the antiabortion propaganda ) . |
| 4 | THE heroic era of poliomyelitis research started with the isolation of the polio virus in monkeys by and in 1908 , and culminated in the development of vaccines protecting against this paralytic disease in the 1950s. , who died on 3 March , in Washington , was one of the heroes of this era . |
| 5 | In the wild the male remains with the nest , protecting from all intruders except other females which he will attempt to entice in to spawn with . |
| 6 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 7 | In determining whether such a seizure was reasonable the court had to balance , on the one hand , the freedom of the individual and his rights which protected against undue invasion of his property , and on the other hand , the interests of society in ensuring that valuable evidence was not destroyed and that wrongdoers were brought to justice . |
| 8 | The code protects against misleading or unethical advertising and provides a surety that you are given full , written details of what registration with a particular agency involves . |
| 9 | We must fight for greater tolerance , and for legislation that protects against anti-gay discrimination , to ensure that something like Section 28 will never be brought into the rest of Europe . |
| 10 | Developing a vaccine that protects against diverse strains is essential , because humans can be infected by many strains of HIV . |
| 11 | Having said that , a diet low in saturated fat protects against several other potentially fatal diseases — notably diabetes , breast cancer and gallstones — but that is a subject for another day . |
| 12 | It stains and protects in one , allowing the woodgrain to show , but filtering out ultra-violet light and repelling water |
| 13 | My problem , as you call it , is that he was 19 and serving his first year in the Light Infantry , in the Bogside of Londonderry , and the weapon that shot him dead was an MI6 high-velocity rifle , product of America , put into the hands of those scum by scum in America protected by American judges . ’ |
| 14 | He also gave lands to them , and had those of Beverley protected by royal writs . |
| 15 | To begin with , the main pastures were bought by the Durham Wildlife Trust ( see Chapter 8 ) and will be protected for all time . |
| 16 | rabbits were rigorously protected for hundreds of years and soon spread far and wide to become the most familiar wild animal of the British mainland . |
| 17 | Bones in pellets are protected for some time ( see discussions on this in the sections on trampling and weathering , above ) , but in wet conditions or in water the pellets disintegrate and the bones they contain are dispersed ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The design must be new and once registered , will be protected for 25 years . |
| 19 | In an appeal on June 11 Iran called on the UN to protect between 500,000 and 900,000 Shias who were reportedly trapped in the marshes of southern Iraq surrounded by 100,000 Iraqi troops and airborne units [ see pp. 38081-82 ; 38211 ] . |
| 20 | I think the thing that sort of has really bugged me righ right from the start of this thing was that when this when the Financial Services Act was put before Parliament , everybody was told the Gower Report and everything said pensions are the same as assets , all your assets and must be protected as such . |
| 21 | At the present time , only 0.2 per cent of rainforests are protected as national parks . |
| 22 | The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation . |
| 23 | The Brazil nut is one of the best protected of all nuts , but even that can be dealt with . |
| 24 | The original miraculous Madonna of the name is to the left of the high altar , protected beneath finely-worked silver slabs . |
| 25 | With the loft floor well insulated and the roof space ventilated , it is vital to ensure that all pipes are well protected against freezing conditions . |
| 26 | It is accepted that our journal list should be kept under continuous review , but the Library costs are actually below average for UK plant science research institutions ( Royal Society/SEPSU Policy Study ) , and should be protected against short-term financial exigencies . |
| 27 | Thus , she is protected against general movements in prices , and will only be affected by movements in the relative prices of kryptonite and phlogiston futures , over and above those caused by general price movements . |
| 28 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 29 | It will , however , be no surprise to learn that the Government is protected against that risk . |
| 30 | The fact that the hulk was protected against daemonic intrusion piqued Jaq 's curiosity at the same time as it relieved his mind . |