Example sentences of "deprive [pers pn] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But such broad definitions render the terms vacuous and thus deprive them of analytical value . |
2 | Different considerations might apply where the agent 's misrepresentation is about the effect of the document which deprives him of apparent authority . |
3 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
4 | In relation to such decisions , therefore , certiorari really does quash the decision and deprive it of legal effect . |
5 | They criticised the leaders who had deprived them of proper schooling and their adolescent years . |
6 | Thus Cenwulf seems to have deprived him of royal status , as Offa did rulers of Kent and Sussex . |
7 | The only way to prevent the poor from plundering resources was to make them ‘ free ’ by depriving them of financial support . |
8 | But now EMI has been accused of exploiting its workforce — in particular , by deliberately sacking casual staff before they 've worked there for two years , thereby depriving them of statutory redundancy pay and other employment rights . |
9 | I am horrified to think that there could be 120,000 Kiwis of Scots descent who are doing the same as me and depriving you of decent circulation . |