Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the death of Pope Pius XII he wrote : ‘ One of my favourite phrases brings me great comfort : we are not on earth as museum-keepers , but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future ’ ( Capovilla , 1978a , p. 481 ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore one notes the South English Legendary 's interesting conviction that some ‘ neutrals ’ , or elves , are still on Earth , and others in the ‘ Earthly Paradise ’ . |
| 3 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 4 | Words of Rea himself : There 's no room for showbiz in my life ; I 'm down to earth ; I take all that fame with a pinch of salt . |
| 5 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 6 | It has yet to fulfil its central claim which is as big as they come : ‘ Make no mistake , Christ will soon be back on earth . ’ |
| 7 | But after today it 'll be back to earth with a bump . |
| 8 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 9 | I wonder why people are here on earth . |
| 10 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 11 | But many of his inventions were down to earth , as witness the Franklin stove which was a real energy saver , and provided comfort to the whole room , an early example of the ‘ Save It ’ campaign . |
| 12 | He understood that heaven and hell were here on earth , and that little by little heaven would drive out hell , and that the efforts of men of intelligence and goodwill should be dedicated to hastening that process ; and that even the word ‘ should ’ , with its implication of duty and overtones of guilt , was in this brave and newly discovered world , inappropriate . |
| 13 | Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging . |
| 14 | The Moss/Pascale school of thought is down to earth . |
| 15 | ‘ My piety has been unfailing , ’ claims the singer dubiously before ‘ The Holy Mugger ’ and , as usual , God gets a good kicking ; especially on ‘ Viva Dead Ponies ’ , where Jesus is back on earth owning a paper shop in Crouch End . |
| 16 | Who will need religion when heaven is here on earth ? |
| 17 | Heaven is here on earth , but only as a taster . |
| 18 | The only complication , from my point of view , is how on earth we refer to one another — ‘ boyfriend ’ is n't serious enough , ‘ lover ’ sounds too exclusively sexual and ‘ partner ’ , which is what I generally end up calling him , makes it sound as though we 're in business together . |
| 19 | The lean times seemed very hard , but the thing you think of when you have some success is how on earth did you survive them ? |
| 20 | ‘ But what I really do n't understand is why on earth you should think anyone of a sound mind would actually want to gain entry into your very confusing family ! ’ |
| 21 | and wondered if there 's anywhere on earth — Australasia |
| 22 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 23 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 24 | Big star who was down to earth |
| 25 | I was not on Earth . |
| 26 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 27 | Let us , for the sake of discussion , entertain the alternative assumption that life has arisen only once , ever , and that was here on Earth . |
| 28 | And just the same as when Jesus was here on earth he was in one place , he he confined himself to a body . |
| 29 | And this surely then , must be one of the most strange and one of the most wonderful interviews that our Lord ever had when he was here on earth with this dying thief . |
| 30 | Jesus himself said , while he was here on earth , that , it 's in Matthew chapter twelve and verse thirty , he who is not with me is against me . |