Example sentences of "deprive [pers pn] of [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that does n't deprive them of their fair share of malignant little blisters full of pop to inflict on their potential audience , who may soon be buying their T-shirts and phlegm samples by the lorry load . |
| 2 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 3 | THE TORIES owe their victory to a swing to Labour scarcely half that required to deprive them of their overall majority . |
| 4 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 5 | ‘ Although her captivity chafed her and her disappearance , as the lord King has found cause to remind me , has deprived him of her considerable ransom . |
| 6 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 7 | In the long-run , this money illusion will disappear as workers come to realise that price inflation is depriving them of their perceived increase-in real income . |
| 8 | That had seemed enough to placate the deputies , who are living in fear of a referendum being called on dissolving the Congress and depriving them of their privileged status . |
| 9 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |