Example sentences of "to protect [noun] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , in countries such as West Germany and the Netherlands — despite their fairly low union densities — a higher proportion of workers are covered by the terms of the union-negotiated collective agreements as a result of the legislative provision for the ‘ extension ’ of agreements throughout an industry ( principally in order to protect employers from the effects of low wage competition ) . |
| 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 | It is to protect non-smokers from the health risks of passive smoking — risks which all those concerned with the welfare of employees , or the public at large , are having to face up to . |
| 4 | In the second phase ( 1910–14 ) , baton-wielding police sought to protect strikebreakers from the wrath of pickets . |
| 5 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 6 | The strategy adopted for the defence of absolutism and reason is firstly to protect philosophy from the intrusion of the sociology of knowledge and secondly to assert that there is simply no other way than having the absolute standards of reason . |
| 7 | Gardens open to the public could also label the most dangerous plants on display — zoos , after all , take care to protect visitors from the tigers , crocodiles or snakes . |
| 8 | A key aim of the VHPB is to provide information to professional associations , trade unions and employers and , through vaccination , to protect workers from the risk of hepatitis B infection at work |
| 9 | The clue to his gardening success in such unpromising terrain can be found at Hidcote in Gloucestershire , for it was a visit there during the 1960s that inspired him to hedge in his land , making a series of compartments to protect plants from the weather . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 12 | The European Convention on Transfrontier Television covered programme standards , advertising and sponsorship , and included regulations to protect audiences from the broadcasting of pornography , excessive violence and programmes inciting racial or religious hatred . |
| 13 | As a responsible dog owner you must be prepared to deworm your dog regularly , not only for the sake of its health and other dogs , but also to protect people from the risk of the disease toxocariasis , as mentioned previously ( see page 36 ) . |
| 14 | In Britain umbrellas are thought to have been first used to protect people from the rain in Bath in the 1660s . |
| 15 | Over 400 Holybourne residents have signed a petition urging the authorities to take measures to protect villagers from the dangers of speeding traffic along the old London Road . |
| 16 | He aims to protect neighbours from the mess and smell by draining muck and manure into two ponds — well away from their homes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And tonight its leading figures said that while Tom 's death was regretted , huntsmen had to protect themnselves from the saboteurs . |
| 20 | 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 . |