Example sentences of "[was/were] bear in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 2 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 3 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 4 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 5 | I know , Mr Holly … you were born in the United Kingdom , you were.brought up there , you were in possession of a valid British passport when you travelled to Moscow . |
| 6 | The ‘ old old ’ , i.e. those aged 85 and over , were born in the years 1890 — 1905 . |
| 7 | However as immigration , at least from the New Commonwealth , has been restricted by various Immigration Acts , so sociological interest has shifted to the inequalities of condition and opportunity of ethnic minorities resident in Britain , many members of which were born in the country . |
| 8 | 54 children aged 0–4 years who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed during 1972–89 , who were born in the study area and were resident there when cancer was diagnosed . |
| 9 | Table II gives the characteristics of children who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed during 1972–89 and who were born in the study area and resident there when their cancer was diagnosed . |
| 10 | It may not be a coincidence , therefore , that four of the five individuals who developed leukaemia at ages 5–24 in Thurso in the years 1979–88 were incomers — and also that four were born in the years 1969–74 , the birth cohort with the greatest proportion of incomers . |
| 11 | All three children with leukaemia at ages 0–4 within 25 km of Dounreay were born in the area . |
| 12 | My two , these two my last two girls were born in the fifties yes . |
| 13 | When was it were you born were you born You were born in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 14 | Here are some examples : they can see in the dark they can never ever tell a lie when they are with other people they know what they are thinking they are living backwards in time — they were born in the future and so instead of getting older , they get younger . |
| 15 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 16 | Ah , right well let's say you were born in the house you live in |
| 17 | Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ? |
| 18 | In Tudor York ( 1979 ) Professor David Palliser has shown that nearly all of the 102 freemen ( 28·5 per cent ) who were born in the city claimed their freedom through their father . |
| 19 | Most of the young black people in my study use LE most of the time , even when speaking to other members of the family who were born in the Caribbean . |
| 20 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 21 | You were born in the Pleck yes ? |
| 22 | If they were born in the village they could well be in the erm baptismal book in church . |
| 23 | ( b ) Somersby Tennyson was born in the Georgian rectory ( not open to the public ) in 1809 . |
| 24 | One of Gloucestershire 's most famous sons , Sir Mathew Hale , was born in the original house in 1609 — the much esteemed Lord Chief Justice of Charles II . |
| 25 | Mary Queen of Scots was born in the palace of Linlithgow on 7 or 8 December 1542 . |
| 26 | Constance was born in the area and remembers when it was still possible to buy a mop or a washing-up bowl in the local shops . |
| 27 | Charles McDonald Renfrew was born in the Kelvinside district of Glasgow on June 21 1929 . |
| 28 | The significance of the birth of Christ is not the sudden appearance of angels all over the place , but the fact that such an important person was born in the most humble surroundings — in a poor and lowly stable . |
| 29 | Joseph was born in the spring of 1840 in a cave near where Joseph Creek forks from the Grande Ronde River . |
| 30 | John Bunyan , whose statue was prominent in the town , was born in the nearby village of Elstow . |