Example sentences of "[verb] be starved of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years the Department has been starved of financial resources which has led to many of the serious problems faced by succeeding directors . |
| 2 | Radio broadcasters have to be content with a low status , and the medium has been starved of funds . |
| 3 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 4 | We all know what has happened since the Health Service has been starved of money . |
| 5 | Kingsholm has been starved of good tries this season so the locals must have really enjoyed this one … |
| 6 | ‘ There was a risk the brain might have been starved of oxygen . |
| 7 | Both businesses had been starved of investment for more than thirty years . |
| 8 | Guests were too frightened to call an ambulance straight away and when one arrived Suzanne 's brain had been starved of oxygen . |
| 9 | Burma had been starved of books and so with the assistance of W. Lockett , who had worked with J.S. Furnivall in the pre-war bookshop , I secured the co-operation of the SPCK in a plan for a general bookshop . |
| 10 | had been starved of film parts and wanted to dramatise herself , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 11 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 12 | Romania 's once-thriving agriculture sector , collectivized under the Communist regime , had been starved of resources for development , because of the priority given to large-scale industrialization : Iliescu revealed that official agricultural production statistics had been grossly exaggerated . |
| 13 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Berlusconi 's new affection for the stockmarket will be welcomed by investors in Milan , who have been starved of new opportunities . |
| 15 | Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government . |
| 16 | The Government 's finance initiative targets developers which have been starved of public and private sector cash during the recession . |
| 17 | While their old firm rivals Rangers , have set new standards of footballing and business excellence , Celtic have been starved of success , amassing debts of almost five million pounds . |