Example sentences of "they [modal v] be safe from " in BNC.

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1 But I was still at school when the evacuees arrived mostly from Newcastle and Sunderland , so they would be safe from German air raids .
2 to escape that , by fleeing into the countryside , very often into particularly backward and inaccessible areas of the countryside , where they would be safe from the security forces and where they hoped they could begin to create a new base among the peasantry .
3 Joseph is instructed to escape to Egypt where they will be safe from Herod , who intends to kill all boys who are two years old and under , in an attempt to be rid of this new so-called king .
4 The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards .
5 They need a home where they will be safe from hunting animals such as bears or lynx and they also need a place to store food for the winter when the land is snow-bound .
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