Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to protect " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 2 | A staggering 70 per cent of Britain 's waste comes from packaging alone — plastics , foils , paper and glass — used not only to protect and retain food quality , but also to enhance product appeal , to give them an image which will raise their perceived value . |
| 3 | For example , Ronald and Daphne could be using Daphne 's expression of anger not only to protect Ronald from knowing about his own anger , but also to protect them both from underlying depressed feelings of which they are even more afraid . |
| 4 | The middle-class capitalist required the legitimacy of all his children not only to protect his possessions from being enjoyed by the offspring of other men but to ensure the loyalty of his sons who might be business partners , and of his daughters who might be essential in marriage alliances . |
| 5 | For the union , it was an opportunity not only to protect its long-held privileges — such as consultation over pit closures and the cutting of coal on five days a week only — but also to demonstrate the power of extra-parliamentary opposition to the ‘ elected dictatorship ’ in Whitehall . |
| 6 | Not only to protect the child within me from her jealousy , but to help Sarah too . |
| 7 | Dr Hallauer summed up the importance of vaccinating healthcare workers against hepatitis B , not only to protect their own health but also for the good of others . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is likely that both phenomena will be at work simultaneously within an industrial relations structure such as prevails in Britain where trade unions are anxious not only to protect the real wages of their members from erosion by exogenous price increases but also to preserve their position in the pecking order of wage differentials . |
| 9 | The pool system was not just to protect journalists and share the work out fairly , but also to control and censor the media . |
| 10 | " The point of conventionalism is not just to protect litigants against surprise , but instead the more complex goal , which includes this one , of achieving the social benefits of coordinated private and commercial activity . |
| 11 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 12 | In November 1960 the SPD , armed with policies that were designed to win power and not simply to protect doctrinal purity , chose the popular Brandt as their candidate for Chancellor in the next election . |
| 13 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 14 | The law not there to protect the patients , it 's there to protect doctors . |