Example sentences of "[verb] to protect [noun] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this lenient approach is that the court will not want to undermine the statutory regulations which are often designed to protect workmen from the consequences of their own carelessness . |
| 2 | Mrs Hitchcock 's other daughter Stella watched in horror as her mother was slashed on the arms and face as she tried to protect Kelly from the attack . |
| 3 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
| 4 | In Britain umbrellas are thought to have been first used to protect people from the rain in Bath in the 1660s . |
| 5 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 6 | In the second phase ( 1910–14 ) , baton-wielding police sought to protect strikebreakers from the wrath of pickets . |
| 7 | He aims to protect neighbours from the mess and smell by draining muck and manure into two ponds — well away from their homes . |
| 8 | Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows . |
| 9 | And tonight its leading figures said that while Tom 's death was regretted , huntsmen had to protect themnselves from the saboteurs . |