Example sentences of "deprive [pers pn] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 2 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 3 | The voice was Coleridge 's , arguing that although the war had been costly to the rich , it had left them much ; ‘ but a PENNY taken from the pocket of a poor man might deprive him of a dinner ’ . |
| 4 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 5 | If it was a sad end for England , they at least had the knowledge that only the weather deprived them of a draw . |
| 6 | As the hon. Member for Uxbridge ( Mr. Shersby ) pointed out , the courts and the public receive very confused and contradictory messages from the Home Office and from Ministers , whose words suggest that the police and the magistrates must be backed up , but whose actions have on occasion deprived them of the support that they need . |
| 7 | Some of the more militant resisters complained that they were being ‘ diddled ’ by the ‘ ingenious , tolerance of a state which deprived them of the opportunity , welcomed by Clifford Allen twenty-five years earlier , ‘ for the young men or our generation … [ to bear ] witness to the faith that [ was ] in them . ’ |
| 8 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 9 | ‘ Those words , read literally , might be taken to indicate that the order for possession in itself deprived him of the protection of the Act . |
| 10 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 11 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 12 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 13 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 14 | ‘ You deprive me of the start of my son 's life , of his babyhood , and you say you 're sorry ? ’ |
| 15 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 16 | You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol . |
| 17 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 18 | Anglo-Welsh is attempting to deprive you of the opportunity to benefit from our excellent prospects . |
| 19 | FAIR WEATHER ON THE FAIRWAYS Do n't let Britain 's winter climate deprive you of the game . |
| 20 | Another observation was of the isolation which can be experienced by the housewife , despite a close and happy marriage , when a move of residence deprives her of the company of friends . |
| 21 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 22 | When Annie Besant was prosecuted with Charles Bradlaugh for publishing The Fruits of Philosophy , a book of contraceptive advice in 1877 , she faced public abuse and insinuations about the immorality of her private life , culminating in the successful attempt to deprive her of the custody of her young daughter . |
| 23 | It not only puts another nail in socialism 's coffin , but deprives him of a peerage . |
| 24 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 25 | It 's the mediocre that drags us all down to a common denominator ; … that deprives us of judgement ; … that particularly deprives us of a sense of humour . |
| 26 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 27 | Taking them back to Orkney , they felt , would have deprived them of the privacy they needed . |
| 28 | She recalled to herself that the circumstances of their visit had deprived them of an opportunity to examine the ancient willow tree sprung from a plank of Noah 's Ark . |
| 29 | ‘ You have deprived me of a father 's love , ’ she said , peering closely at her toes . |
| 30 | Unless she felt it because her dismissal from that job had deprived her of the sight and sound of Luke Scott ? |