Example sentences of "been bear [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much has been made of the traumatic aspect of being born , yet infants of all species have been born since bearing began and it would be surprising if natural processes did not allow for the experience . |
| 2 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 3 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 4 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 5 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. J. is 16 months old , having been born on 22 January 1991 . |
| 6 | Fate has dealt harshly with W. She is now aged 16 , having been born on 31 March 1976 . |
| 7 | He had been born on March 30th 1853 . |
| 8 | His dead brother , Vincent Van Gogh , had been born on March 30th 1852 . |
| 9 | Nor was this surprising , for she had been born on the shortest day of the year , which is the sun 's birthday also . |
| 10 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 11 | I had been born on Easter Sunday 21 years earlier and as I went into the water , I thought : ‘ Laddo , you 're going to die on Easter Sunday , too ’ . |
| 12 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 13 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 14 | Wilson grew up in rowing , rather than the Boat Race , having been born at Henley . |
| 15 | Some were so tiny , having been born at under 30 weeks gestation and spent several months in incubators . |
| 16 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 17 | FOR the first time in decades a litter of two ocelot kittens has been born at London Zoo . |
| 18 | In June 1940 , Dean Pollard had reported to the committee that an infant , Margaret C. , who had been born at St. Peter 's , and who had a double harelip and cleft palate , had been referred to the Children 's Hospital , Great Ormond Street . |
| 19 | In Jean et Blonde , the hero 's beloved , although English , is described in terms of perfection , and the fact that ‘ There was just a suspicion in her speech/ That she had not been born at Pontoise ’ is a very minor and venial offence against courloisie . |
| 20 | One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen . |
| 21 | , Richard ( fl. 1572–1596 ) , navigator and privateer , claimed to have been born at Buckhurst , Essex , but is generally referred to as ‘ of Weymouth ’ . |
| 22 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 23 | The only panda to have been born at Wolong Centre , Lan Tian appears to have died from an intestinal complaint . |
| 24 | Carol had been born at Christmas twenty-seven years ago — how long ago it seemed . |
| 25 | Donna Hazell had been born at Thorn House on the same day as herself ! |
| 26 | The 11 youngsters discussed the links between Cleveland , the De Brus family and its most famous member , Robert the Bruce , the Scottish king said to have been born at Skelton Castle . |
| 27 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 28 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
| 29 | The great magician Merlin was said to have been born of a union between an incubus and a nun ; happily Merlin used his other-worldly powers of wizardry for good , rather than evil . |
| 30 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |