Example sentences of "in [noun] protect [pn reflx] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | People who have something to hide , such as criminals or deviants , or even ordinary school pupils , may deliberately give untrue answers in order to protect themselves . |
| 3 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 4 | Train all employees to perform their duties in a safe and competent manner in order to protect themselves , the company 's property and the community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some women can become fixed in the ‘ negative pole ’ expression of image , however ; just as a woman can wear a rigid mask of beauty , so too she can go to the opposite extreme and deliberately make herself ugly in order to protect herself and demonstrate her anger against the world , or , possibly , her dislike of men . |
| 7 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 8 | What happens is that in order to protect ourselves we erect barriers of denial of feeling between us and the pain . |
| 9 | Increasingly departmental behaviour in order to protect oneself . |
| 10 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 11 | Movement can also be limited by the body in order to protect itself from further harm , e.g. the pain from a twisted ankle prevents mobility , thus allowing the inflamed tissues to rest and heal . |
| 12 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |