Example sentences of "be born [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 2 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |
| 3 | I always know about you , because we are born under the same star . ’ |
| 4 | If ever twins are born into the Royal House , then the Enchantment of the Beastline will lose its potency , and the curse will revive . |
| 5 | Every day more children die in the poor world than are born in the rich world . |
| 6 | New cells are born in the second or basal layer of skin , at the bottom of the epidermis . |
| 7 | Those who are born in the Third World have a considerably smaller chance of surviving childhood than those born here — and the same was true of those born in the West a hundred years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 11 | Rack renting of this marginal land , bitterly attacked by reformers but never remedied , was the greatest single cause of hardship to those who had not sunk or been born into the vast reservoir of casual labour . |
| 12 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 13 | Ian Paisley had been born into the rural pious Orange tradition of politicized Protestantism in County Armagh . |
| 14 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |
| 15 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |
| 16 | He must have been born in the middle ‘ thirties , when hunger was already rampant . |
| 17 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 18 | To be forty she 'd have had to have been born in the nineteen seventies |
| 19 | The papacy had been born in the ancient world and owed many of its traditions , as well as its administrative functions , to late imperial Rome . |
| 20 | Yesterday a dream died in Galway … a dream which had been born in the heady , optimistic days of the early 1970s when bright-eyed youngsters leaving school walked in the doors of the Digital plant and more often than not were given a job . |
| 21 | Oh yeah I mean she would have been born in the forties would n't she not seventies ! |
| 22 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 23 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
| 24 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 25 | A : When you ask that you betray your belief that one class is indeed superior to another : that to be born to the uneducated lower classes is a singular life-problem : though I 'm sure if I asked you straight you would , in your gentle , blind , liberal way , deny it . |
| 26 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 27 | It is one of the wonders of the Christmas story that Jesus — the authoritative Word of God — stooped to be born in the humblest of settings ; it is one of the wonders of the Christian faith that after His resurrection , Jesus should remind His disciples that He retained all authority in heaven and earth . |
| 28 | However , during the first Two Periods of the development of the Created God , the pleasures of life were confined to those of a purely physical nature and were born of the ruthless competition for life . |
| 29 | We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) . |
| 30 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |