Example sentences of "deprive [pers pn] of [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the career patterns of service to the State and the rapid fragmentation of noble estates , divided among several heirs , continued to deprive them of strong local ties comparable with those of British and French noblemen . |
| 2 | There is a suggestion too that poor readers are deficient in an internal articulatory code ( Briggs and Underwood , 1987 ) , and that this is in itself a source of difficulty insofar as it deprives them of one lexical route — that is , one way of identifying what words mean . |
| 3 | It does not drive them mad any more than depriving them of any other sort of sleep , although one early report did suggest the reverse , and was highly publicized . |
| 4 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 5 | The panel contains a cantharus which is comparable to that in the central roundel of mosaic B , North Hill.7 In the latter , the base and lower body of the cantharus do not survive , so depriving us of valuable comparative evidence . |