Example sentences of "that god had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Echoing Plato , Galileo claimed that God had created the world according to mathematical proportions . |
| 2 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |
| 3 | The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . |
| 4 | From that moment , I never doubted that God had put the right man , Vitalis , in the right place at the appropriate time . |
| 5 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |