Example sentences of "been born a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 2 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 3 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 4 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 5 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 6 | This fuelled rumours that the murder was the work of the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist group Pamyat , from which Fr Men ( who had been born a Jew ) reportedly had received threatening letters . |
| 7 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 8 | Would you prefer to have been born a man ? |
| 9 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 10 | Education standards had deteriorated to such an extent by 1997 that Billy Johnson could n't work out whether he had been born a day too early or too late to vote , or whether his birth had been induced or retarded . |
| 11 | The argument that if you 've been born a tortoise , it is difficult to become a hare because some official insists , is flawed , though the imposing of fines must be done in a responsible manner and not by self-appointed officials with heavy-handed habits . |
| 12 | You were grateful not to have been born a boy , for that meant the probability of dying in war . |
| 13 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 14 | The friar just stared at him and concluded that Fitzosbert would have liked to have been born a woman . |
| 15 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes I wish I had n't been born a Catholic , Joe . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , get up , ’ said Angalo , embarrassed at the Abbot acting like that in front of someone who , however much of a friend he was , had n't been born a Store nome . |
| 18 | Nick had been born a week before Christmas . |
| 19 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |