Example sentences of "born [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a central doctrine of Christianity that the womb of the Virgin Mary became the means by which God descended into human form and was born as Jesus Christ . |
| 2 | Dasaratha 's wish was granted and , in the sacred Solar capital of Ayodhya , the divine baby Rama was born as Vishnu 's seventh incarnation on Earth . |
| 3 | That people are born free and equal is an a priori assumption , argued Duguit , whereas it is an incontestable fact that they were born as members of a collectivity . |
| 4 | The effect of such poisons is to cause some children to be born as monsters , and the people who venture too close to contaminated land sicken and die . ’ |
| 5 | Buckshee ( ‘ unwanted ’ or ‘ for free ’ ) was born as baksheesh , a tip . |
| 6 | While this may provide some considerable challenge to governments , nations and institutions across the globe , it could also represent something of a personal challenge to you — especially if you were born between February 8 and 18 . |
| 7 | These eclipses are significant , however , especially if you were born between February 20 and March 11 . |
| 8 | All Taureans , especially those of you born between May 9 and 17 , will find life easier if you let go of the past without a struggle and become open to different avenues of opportunity . |
| 9 | EXPECT changes , changes and yet more changes , especially if you were born between April 8 and 12 . |
| 10 | All neurotics , and many others besides , take exception to the fact that ‘ inter urinas et faeces nascimur [ we are born between urine and faeces ] ’ . |
| 11 | , Robert Edward , ninth Baron Petre ( 1742–1801 ) , Roman Catholic leader , was born about February 1742 in London , the only son ( he had three older sisters ) of Robert James Petre , eighth Baron Petre , of Ingatestone , Essex , a botanist and garden designer , and his wife Anna Maria Barbara , daughter of James Radclyffe , third Earl of Derwentwater [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | A child is not born for reasons and it will not fit even the prettiest box assigned to it by its determined providers . |
| 13 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |
| 14 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 15 | Nuclear technology was born during World War II . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , ye were born tae years after they were married . |
| 17 | Basil Bayne , WPSA Education and Careers committee , said : ‘ The offer will be made on the basis of a 1,500 world essay on ‘ Possible Developments in the production and marketing of poultry in Europe by the year 2000 ’ and the competition is open to anyone born after September 1 , 1969 . ’ |
| 18 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 19 | Spouses or children under 18 would be eligible to seek registration as British citizens ; children born after the registration of a head of household , including those born after June 30 , 1997 , would automatically become British citizens . |
| 20 | Of the 66 deaths from other causes in men born after term , 34 were from malignant neoplasms . |
| 21 | The standardised mortality ratio in these men was 159 ( 118 to 209 ) compared with 91 ( 52 to 148 ) in the other men born after term . |
| 22 | The large families in class V were born of ignorance and fear of sex and contraception , and of reluctance to discuss them by parents . |
| 23 | Born of parents who mixed three heritages between them African , Hispanic and Chinese he grew up in Cuba and subsequently went on to live in Spain , Italy , Mexico and the United States , stopping long enough in France in the late Thirties to be bouleversé by Surrealism , and by Picasso 's ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ in particular . |
| 24 | And all that was left was a silent man who was imprisoned still by a numbness born of horror and years of fear , tormented by the simple question to which there seemed to be no answer : why , through all the hell he had seen , had he survived ? |
| 25 | Born of Dilga , the Earth Mother , they fashioned the first genitals from the magic fungus for the hitherto sexless and infertile humans who had aimlessly wandered the earth . |
| 26 | An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy . |
| 27 | The results may look conservative , but in this century it is almost a novel idea — even if born of necessity — to restore romance and comedy to ‘ The Merchant of Venice . ’ |
| 28 | Installing robots in Japan is a labour strategy born of necessity , with the particular advantages that robots work all day , produce 30 per cent more than people and drastically reduce defect rates . |
| 29 | Most of us realize that there may be valid reasons behind such requests but the expansion of Korea 's armed forces , though born of necessity , does not fall within current policy decisions of the NSC . |
| 30 | The stress on material advancement was initially born of necessity . |