Example sentences of "strip of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over-grazed hillsides stripped of their heather are eroding into the valley , bringing down silt that will in time upset the natural balance of the water chemistry , with possible adverse effects on fish stocks . |
| 2 | Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes . |
| 3 | Along it came , at first , ex-soldiers and civil servants of the losing regime , men escaping detention or worse , middle class families pushed to the margins of society by new authorities with more ideology than common sense , southern farmers stripped of their affluence by misguided economic programmes . |
| 4 | NORTH Buckinghamshire , easy winners of the English Counties League 's Division Six , have been stripped of their title as punishment for not paying their All England Netball Association affiliation fees on time . |
| 5 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 6 | Many streams have been stripped of their ancient boundary trees , and the knock-on effect of the drainage schemes has been to encourage farmers to turn their farms into prairies . |
| 7 | From their boat , they saw that everything on the island was entirely covered with fine white dust , like snow , and that the trees on the northern part of Krakatoa and Verlaten Island had been stripped of their leaves and branches by the rain of falling pumice , while those growing on Lang Island and Polish Hat seemed to have got away without much damage . |
| 8 | Larger species are usually stripped of their flesh , so that bones and feathers are not ingested . |
| 9 | Third World communities who remain free of our degenerative diseases have been found to live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrate than ours — carbohydrate obtained from cereals which have not been stripped of their dietary fibre , fibre-rich vegetables ( potatoes and other root vegetables ) , legumes and fruits . |
| 10 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 11 | And his prayer seemed to have been amply answered when the Planetary Guard came for the Valence gang ; though , as is the way with prayers which are answered , there was cause for woe too — for the Valences were to be stripped of their best young fighters . |
| 12 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 13 | But how quickly would the emperor 's old clothes fall from fashion when stripped of their conceptual trimmings ? |
| 14 | It is a cruel irony of the Battle of Verdun that the outlying forts that Joffre , deeming them useless , had stripped of their guns , were found to have withstood constant bombardment by both sides for many months almost unscathed . |
| 15 | Our results are consistent with previous studies in T-cell-deficient nude mice suggesting that class II + epithelial cells play a crucial role in T-cell development and with an earlier report showing that fetal day-12 thymic anlage stripped of their mesenchymal capsule fail to support lymphocyte development . |
| 16 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
| 17 | In most cases this was an outright destruction , though the wealthy pagan institutions had first to be stripped of their treasuries and revenues . |
| 18 | The trees on every side of the magazine bent away from it and were stripped of their leaves . |
| 19 | The unions , who were the beneficiaries of these monopolies , were accomplices to the most scandalous inefficiencies , and had to be stripped of their power . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter . |
| 21 | Travellers stripped of their possessions and disappearing into castle dungeons , never to be heard of again . |
| 22 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 23 | The electorates of each country would be stripped of their powers . |
| 24 | On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order . |
| 25 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 26 | Accordingly , thousands of Czechoslovaks who had fled the country after the 1968 clampdown and were subsequently stripped of their citizenship would be able to regain it . |
| 27 | The measure also restored citizenship to 175 cultural figures stripped of their citizenship on emigration , and to those who had joined the Russian emigration to Israel . |
| 28 | The jury not only upheld the newspaper 's defence of justification , but added a rider suggesting that the " Moonies " should be stripped of their charitable status . |
| 29 | The reels of copper wire will have to be stripped of their insulating casing . |
| 30 | At the Hulsta Mill , near Stockholm , thousands of trees are brought in and stripped of their bark every day . |