beholden

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: LIFT does seem to make GPs even more beholden to the NHS.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Strategically, the existence of an Iraq which is not beholden to America is an irritant which cannot be allowed to long continue.
• already: Before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
• now: It is now beholden on all of us to reap the benefits of the new order.
• also: Together with Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia, also beholden to the US, refuses to join the boycott officially.
• directly: The point is that politicians are more directly beholden to public opinion than ever before.
• all: And then there's this crowd of nobles, all subservient to him, all beholden to him and dependent on his favor.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Government institutions are becoming ever more beholden to these corporations than to their citizens.
• feel: Al-Moghira felt beholden to Ziyad for his evidence in this matter, as we shall in the sequel see.