Example sentences of "deprived of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandra is deprived of her life and I am deprived of her company , love , and laughter because some creature chose to drink six or seven whiskies and drove home . ’ |
| 2 | She did n't like to be deprived of her drama . |
| 3 | In the title story Sara Suleri suggests that , as on legally meatless days people thought constantly of meat , so deprived of her dead , she thinks constantly of them . |
| 4 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 5 | Only when she retired , and was deprived of her police escort , did she appreciate why other people find driving in London so difficult nowadays . |
| 6 | But in other situations — for instance in asserting a mother 's special right not to be deprived of her children , or in offering characteristically female insights to correct a narrowly male view of life — they have equally naturally appealed to the idea of a distinct female nature . |
| 7 | In Nagle v. Fielden ( C.A. , 1966 ) Lord Denning applied the rules of natural justice to a refusal of a licensing application on the ground that the applicant had , by virtue of the refusal , been deprived of her right to work . |
| 8 | Butler herself presented a memorial to the Foreign Secretary , signed by a thousand women and calling for changes in the law , so that ‘ it should be impossible for any young girl to be deprived of her liberty by fraud or force ’ . |
| 9 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 10 | In the coming witch-hunt thousands of people were to be deprived of their livelihood and reputation but , as we now know , the most serious spies went undetected . |
| 11 | Many Forest wardens were deprived of their offices after conviction of such malpractices at the Forest Eyre . |
| 12 | This reflected Parliament 's concern that such persons , presumed still to be innocent of any crime , should be further deprived of their liberty only in narrow and defined circumstances . |
| 13 | There have been a number of major scandals , the most significant being the Nye Bevan Lodge investigation in 1988 , in which residents were found to have been illegally deprived of their money , made to queue naked for baths , and subjected to other practices which included physical and sexual assault . |
| 14 | The third is that if the easy way out is taken and the children stay away , then the church will be deprived of their fresh and youthful presence . |
| 15 | But the relief is only temporary because when hormone-dependent cancers are deprived of their hormone supply , sooner or later some cancer cells mutate to become independent of them and the growth of the tumour is resumed . |
| 16 | It seems that those external changes are somehow detected by the pineal gland , for experimental animals deprived of their pineal are slower to entrain , but the mechanism is not known . |
| 17 | Upon this the females , being deprived of their young and longing to supply their place , seek the males once more , since they are particularly fond of their offspring . ’ |
| 18 | For villages already deprived of their public house , general store , pharmacy , and the bus service , the loss of their school represents a final blow to the village fabric . |
| 19 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 20 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 21 | Apart from those who have been deprived of their freedom by the state , and at the discretion of the electoral registration officer , anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to register to vote . |
| 22 | Moreover , it will be guilty of giving succour , however tacit , to a regime where people continue to be deprived of their democratic rights , to suffer and to be killed , purely on the grounds of the colour of their skin . |
| 23 | Some addicts suffer violent mood swings if they are deprived of their favourite snack food while others pile on the pounds by munching their way through up to 70 bars a week . |
| 24 | As to the functions themselves , they are deprived of their pragmatic identity and cast in a role in which they resemble the grammatical units that they replace . |
| 25 | And the fans faced years deprived of their number one sport . |
| 26 | A report in the British Journal of Addiction says some carrot junkies eat up to five bunches a day and become desperate if deprived of their fix . |
| 27 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 28 | Tribes and small nations deprived of their gods , their lands and their right to procreate , others simply eradicated by pogroms the Autarch personally supervised . |
| 29 | Those who refused him their recognition were deprived of their lands and forced into a form of internal exile within France , into that area which the Valois ruled . |
| 30 | Their raw material and energy costs would rise , while being deprived of their previous government subsidies . |