Example sentences of "to protect themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To protect themselves during their winter slumbers , they build nests . |
| 2 | Several laws have been passed in modern times to restrict dangerous activities and to impose criminal sanctions on citizens who fail to protect themselves against injury — for example , the offences of failing to wear a safety helmet when riding a motor cycle , and failing to wear a safety harness when travelling in the front seat of a car . |
| 3 | The Tsars , the Habsburgs and the Ottomans sought to rationalize and industrialize their ramshackle empires in order to protect themselves against the expansionism of the modern West European State . |
| 4 | At this point , Christians need to protect themselves against over-reaction . |
| 5 | Failing the development of a vaccine for human beings to protect themselves against malaria , or a ‘ one-shot ’ radical drug , or a long-lasting preventative medicine , the control of the mosquito vector must produce the greatest benefit to the greatest number in the shortest time . |
| 6 | Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions … |
| 7 | Cynics — who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed — may ridicule you . |
| 8 | Where competing firms are small they may wish not only to help regulate competition in the product market by joining together , but also to protect themselves against a marked inequality in bargaining power , since they are too small to be able to deal effectively with the trade unions unaided . |
| 9 | Companies in the survey were asked if they used any mechanisms to protect themselves against poaching by other businesses employing headhunters . |
| 10 | The German grain-growers had felt the transatlantic threat , but also wished to protect themselves against Russian grain , cheaply produced and easily distributed by rail . |
| 11 | Through the early growth of the brain these ape-hominoids developed greater fluency in the use of their hands and began to fashion tools to protect themselves against the powerful hunters . |
| 12 | This enables a community of humans to cooperate in working together to protect themselves against the worst effects of nature , and to obtain greater security than would otherwise be possible . |
| 13 | One obvious answer is that they want to protect themselves against their own tendency to act rashly , in the heat of passion . |
| 14 | Bulimia does not mean " to force vomit " , Some compulsive overeaters ( all of whom could be termed sufferers from bulimia ) use enforced vomiting further to control their emotional feelings and also to protect themselves against the consequence of obesity — but not all do so . |
| 15 | But even as she spoke she found herself wondering about the way she 'd reacted to his kisses ; if anyone should be well armed to protect themselves against the attractions of a man like Dane , she should . |
| 16 | Now they are having to change their attitude as more and more public school kids rifle shops in London 's Kings Road and South Molton Street for the best in designer gear Because of their rich clientele , the shops have not previously used the tags and electronic security systems used in high street stores to protect themselves against the £1.5 billion-worth of goods lost through shoplifting each year But designer clothes are attracting designer thieves . |
| 17 | See also Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 ( insurance brokers ) , and also Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 : " … the character of a general medical practice is such that one who is employed therein as a medical assistant , necessarily acquires such a special and intimate knowledge of the patients of the business that the employers … are entitled to protect themselves against unfair competition on the servant 's part " , per Evershed J. |
| 18 | In order to protect themselves against employees accepting terms put forward by trading partners , many businesses include an express provision in their terms of trading limiting the authority of their agents and employees . |
| 19 | This causes the market makers in shares to widen their bid-ask spreads , to protect themselves in their dealings with better-informed traders . |
| 20 | Much to the alarm of narcotics agents , cultivation is spreading as farmers seek cash to protect themselves from the hardships of war . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tying pillows to their heads with towels to protect themselves from the larger falling lumps , they set off . |
| 23 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They would need clothing and shelter for the extremes of weather , and weaponry to protect themselves from the wild animals and hostile tribes which roamed the desolate regions they were to visit . |
| 26 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 27 | So plants , quite naturally , have the ability to protect themselves from predators , just as all other creatures do . |
| 28 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 29 | Some people very frightened of their homosexual leanings may consciously or unconsciously enter a defensive marriage to protect themselves from these feelings . |
| 30 | Their bodies require more careful maintenance to keep functioning , and to some extent they have to protect themselves from too deep an involvement in the problems of others as their own emotions become more frail . |