Example sentences of "[noun] [be] born [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids are born in the next year with the coming of spring and summer , so that they can take full advantage of the brief period when food is relatively plentiful . |
| 2 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 3 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 4 | That he could even think of illustrating that perversity with purveyors of a contrary cosmology suggests that his opposition was born of the common conviction that a moving earth violated common sense . |
| 5 | Chandra Shekhar was born into the powerful Thakur caste of Uttar Pradesh landowners in July 1927 . |
| 6 | Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography . |
| 7 | Edward was born on the third of March , and the advent of spring is a constant theme , and symbol of renewal , in everything he has written . |
| 8 | By contrast , virtually none of the population of many rural areas was born in the New Commonwealth ( Commission for Racial Equality , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The idea for a consortium was born of the year-old fiber channel alliance between HP and IBM , according to Ed Frymoyer the HP alliance manager who is also heading up FCSI . |
| 10 | Police said the child was born within the past few days . |
| 11 | The BBC Big Band was born in the 1960s out of the amalgamation of the Revue and Variety Orchestras into the New Radio Orchestra , after a BBC executive had heard New York 's famous and versatile Radio City Symphony Orchestra . |
| 12 | Yes , Constanza was born in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 14 | Gilbert was born in the Dolomite region of Italy , and speaks English with a hesitancy and sibilance that 's eerily reminiscent of Peter Lorre . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Even when a baby is born with the intact body structures required for communicating , it is necessary to learn to use those structures , to perceive , and to attach meaning to discrete sounds . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you silly bastard , ’ he replied , ‘ My father was born on the Scottish side of the Border and my mother on the English side . |
| 18 | Any person whose father was born in the Western Sahara would be eligible for inclusion , as would any person who had been intermittently resident over the 12 years before the December 1974 census . |
| 19 | Nicky was born on the small island of Puerto Rico close to the United States of America . |
| 20 | ARIEL 'S BABY WAS born in the early spring , normal at around seven pounds , and healthy . |
| 21 | ( b ) Somersby Tennyson was born in the Georgian rectory ( not open to the public ) in 1809 . |
| 22 | My two , these two my last two girls were born in the fifties yes . |
| 23 | The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us . |
| 24 | Charlotte 's daughter was born on the first of June , a week or two earlier than expected . |
| 25 | Sarah 's daughter was born on the last day of September . |
| 26 | Steven Patrick Morrissey was born on the 22nd May 1959 . |
| 27 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 30 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |