Example sentences of "god 's [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's warning to the Israelites as they embarked on their conquest of the Promised Land can be applied easily to the renewal of mind which each of us should experience . |
| 2 | What he said was God 's word to the widow . |
| 3 | Then came the era of the Brat Pack , a bunch of young Hollywood actors who came on to the scene thinking they were God 's gift to the cinema — and some of them were . |
| 4 | Jeremiah was God 's messenger to the people of Israel at a time of great national distress . |
| 5 | How simply Jacob 's hands cross over to convey God 's blessing to the younger son . |
| 6 | Weary of quotations from the Bible being used to lend God 's authority to the subjection of women , the leading US feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman 's Bible in 1895 , a caustic and entertaining commentary on the scriptural passages most favoured by misogynists . |
| 7 | I have mentioned one example of such imagery already — the comparison between God 's relation to the world and salt dissolving in water . |
| 8 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |