Example sentences of "able to defend [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly prey need to be both sprinters over short distances and marathon runners over longer ones , to be able to defend themselves against both types of pursuers . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't able to defend myself at all , I was just wanting to get it over with . ’ |
| 5 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |