"defence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defence sustantivo

sustantivo + defence
Kolokacji: 19
air defence • title defence • self defence • defence of the city • home defence • ...
defence + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 75
Defence Force • Defence Minister • Defence Staff • defence policy • Defence Secretary • defence lawyer • Defence Ministry • ...
defence + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
defence argues • defence takes • defence rests
(1) argue, take, rest
Kolokacji: 3
1. defence argues = obrona sprzecza się defence argues
2. defence takes = obrona wymaga defence takes
3. defence rests = obrona opiera defence rests
  • Their defence rested now on Baius alone, and it was no small task.
  • Ian McEwan's defence of his friend Martin Amis (Letters, November 21) rests on two arguments, which are conflated.
  • Stapylton's defence rested on the basis that as Lewis was his slave, his actions were lawful.
  • Their defence against murder rests entirely on their disabilities.
  • Then the defence of Keithland would rest upon a Dreamweaver's frail and inadequate resources.
  • He not only accepted, he became the theorist of, persecution; and his defences were later to be those on which all defences of the Inquisition rested.
  • The defence rests its case.
  • Lane's defence rested on the lack of evidence about how or where Tegan might have been killed.
  • If the defence, he concluded, rested on no solid foundation, then the jury must do their duty to the community at large and by the oath they had sworn.
  • Some Anglo investors have been getting restless over the board's conspicuous divisions in recent months, so its defence must rest on two key planks.
verbo + defence
Kolokacji: 22
play in defence • provide defence • make a defence • strengthen one's defences • organize the defence • ...
adjetivo + defence
Kolokacji: 39
coastal defence • successful defence • German defence • civil defence • strong defence • ...

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