Example sentences of "god ['s] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this light , these appear less as vulgar reductions of the divine from a profane angle , but sharp satires , not so much of God 's ordinance of the cosmos , but rather of human understanding of the scope for salvation and damnation . |
| 2 | It 's a privilege to meet with the students as they seek God 's direction for the future . |
| 3 | And , as we observed earlier , there are still people in Britain who can ascribe a fire caused by lightning in York to God 's wrath at the appointment of a somewhat outspoken bishop — as if , amid the violence , hatred , prejudice , insensitivity and menace of the modern world , God had nothing more pressing on His mind , nothing better to do with His resources . |
| 4 | Pupils are receiving occult teaching , and are studying the science of life — before going out into the larger world to relieve the stress of humanity , to teach mankind the Divine Wisdom , God 's Plan for the World , Evolution — to bring happiness to the unhappy , peace to the warring , and the only true happiness is found through service and brotherhood . |
| 5 | The commandments show God 's concern for the whole of life . |
| 6 | This may help someone who is struggling with God 's will for the future . |
| 7 | To all of them the story pattern of Mary 's assent to God 's will at the Annunciation , enabling the birth of his Son who was involved with suffering , death , but also with resurrection and ascension in time , discloses a means of re-ordering ( literally transforming ) their own experience . |
| 8 | It also concurred with his presentation of himself as a specifically warlike Messiah — a man who implemented God 's will with the sword and whose triumphs bore testimony to God 's favour . |
| 9 | Some few may write a Declaration , others may sign it , but they are stating what has been God 's law from the beginning , ‘ That all men are created equal … that … ’ ’ he paused and consulted his watch again , opening and closing the engraved case with a brisk snap . |
| 10 | Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest . |
| 11 | I want God 's forgiveness for the crime I committed ! ’ |
| 12 | After the pig had issued its last piercing shriek , Agnes offered up a prayer asking God 's forgiveness with the excuse that , if she had n't killed the pig , Alisdair would have gone without his bacon . |
| 13 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 14 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 15 | What he said was God 's word to the widow . |
| 16 | Israel is to shun behaviour which is bringing God 's judgement on the land ( compare Genesis 15:16 ) . |
| 17 | For example , slow and meditative songs convey the depth of God 's love for the individual ; majestic ones centre on the exalted Christ ; and those which are up-tempo express the joy of being a Christian . |
| 18 | Sometimes , far less risk is involved : a prophecy will simply be an expression of God 's love for the congregation . |
| 19 | Mitchell 's parable is specifically designed to reflect upon the problem of God 's love in the face of evil , rather than of God 's existence . |
| 20 | Liturgy provides both a public focus of the structure of the contemplative life and a ritual in which the individual 's experience of the reality of God 's presence within the self is one with his sense of communitas in the body of Christ . |
| 21 | This too , some have argued , makes it an apt image for God 's presence in the world . |
| 22 | Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved . |
| 23 | Any theist committed to the view that God is omnipresent must by definition believe that there is evidence of God 's presence in the reality observed on earth . |
| 24 | Belief in God can be eroded from two opposite directions — from the effort to prove God 's existence on the one hand , and from the denial of any evidence for God 's existence on the other . |
| 25 | Then came the era of the Brat Pack , a bunch of young Hollywood actors who came on to the scene thinking they were God 's gift to the cinema — and some of them were . |
| 26 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |
| 27 | ‘ It is said that Watson replied , ‘ Is that you Mr Bell ? ’ but since there was only one telephone in the whole of God 's creation at the time , Bell ‘ s reply to HIM is not hard to guess at . |
| 28 | That 's right yes , if they coul God 's son on the earth during these |
| 29 | Now he is being asked to sacrifice his future , and , if we remember the course of the story so far , God 's future for the world . |
| 30 | The generation that came out of Egypt and took the part of God 's bride at the wedding at Sinai ( for that is what it was , as the prophet Hosea realized ) do indeed die in the desert , as God said they would . |