Example sentences of "had be deprive of " in BNC.

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1 It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something .
2 ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’
3 Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood .
4 The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection .
5 The clergy no longer formed a discrete estate , the religious having disappeared while the secular establishment had been deprived of its privileges .
6 From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such .
7 The people did so , and the Archbishop of Canterbury then addressed the assembly on the theme ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ , saying that by the unanimous consent of all the magnates Edward had been deprived of the government of his kingdom because of his inadequacy and his offences against Church and kingdom .
8 Controlling the bureaucracy poses problems for all presidents and Ford was undeniably correct in arguing that presidents had been deprived of the sort of ‘ clout ’ they once had in matters of national security .
9 The greatest was that the dauphin , Charles ( he was , in fact , the third dauphin , two elder brothers having died prematurely ) had been deprived of his legitimate right to succeed his father as king .
10 The Collector 's face had assumed an alert expression , for the Padre was now addressing the godparents ; but his still wandering mind was harrowed by the thought of the gentle , pious Mr Bradley of the Post Office department who , only the day before , had been deprived of the evening of his life , and the afternoon as well , come to that .
11 Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) .
12 But by 1646 he had been deprived of his parish and in 1648 he was expelled from Christ Church .
13 I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre .
14 She trotted off , content that Dada too had been deprived of something or other .
15 She had been deprived of him once before , six years ago , before she even knew she loved him , and then she had reacted with an endless rage that she had interpreted as hatred .
16 In particular the central committee had been deprived of its ultimate power to dismiss the general secretary or the full politburo ( since the majority of politburo members sat ex-officio ) , while the composition of the politburo was likely to reduce drastically the frequency of its meetings .
17 Nor , it was pointed out , had any action been taken to end the discriminatory " Status Acts " passed between 1976 and 1981 which unilaterally conferred " independence " on the homelands of Transkei , Bophutatswana , Venda and Ciskei , whose people , totalling 8,000,000 , had been deprived of their South African nationality .
18 The Libyan Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Secretary Ibrahim Bashari claimed on April 27 that the air embargo had led to the deaths of " hundreds of children " who would otherwise have received medical treatment abroad or who had been deprived of vaccines which had to be imported .
19 The Court of Appeal held that the owner had stolen his own car because the victim had been deprived of " possession or control of it " .
20 Before 1861 the state had left most rural tasks to the gentry , but nobles who had been deprived of their serfs had no reason to think of themselves as agents of the government .
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