Example sentences of "born [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Analyses of survival distributions of contemporaneous cohorts showed that roots at the northern site consistently lived longer on average than roots born during the same periods at the southern site ( Geham-Mantel test , α =0.05 ) . |
2 | Then , thinking of her own mother , she wondered how two sisters born of the same parents could be so different . |
3 | I always know about you , because we are born under the same star . ’ |
4 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
5 | Yet would a white child born into the same conditions as the most disadvantaged inner-city black ( to a drug-taking , teenage , single mother , say ) be more likely to succeed than a black ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | So she looked at Neva 's hand and into her eyes , and told her , " You will be lucky , for the sun is your kinsman , born in the same hour . |
9 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
10 | A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It also seems likely that Wagner , thirty-one years Nietzsche 's senior and born in the same year as Nietzsche 's long dead father , was in some sense a father-figure and additionally attractive on this account . |
14 | A cohort may consist of all persons born in the same year ( a birth cohort or generation ) ; but all women married in a particular year or a random sample of all cancer sufferers diagnosed in a certain month are equally valid examples of cohorts . |
15 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
16 | Each child born with a defect was matched as closely as possible to a healthy infant born in the same hospital , at the same time . |
17 | Denise was expecting the couple 's daughter Liberty , now 17 months old , when his cancer was diagnosed and David visited his wife and new baby — born in the same hospital — connected to a drip . |
18 | 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 ! |
19 | ‘ He was born in the same town as me , ’ he says . |
20 | From this he could obtain survivorship curves for cohorts of leaves born in the same time period and record some of the causes of death or damage within the populations ( Fig. 16.5 ) . |
21 | But what about babies born in the same city at the same time ? |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ) . |
24 | My cousin , who is pregnant , was born on the same day as Arthur 's , who is the father . |
25 | You know , Elaine did n't register my birth , and we 're not really sure whether the facts she gave were absolutely true , so it 's going to be a matter of checking all babies born on the same day in the same area , and I 'm not sure whether the people at St Catherine 's House can do that sort of thing . |
26 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
27 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
28 | THE ROLL of a class in a Co Down primary school jumped by more than half in one go when four children from the same family — all born on the same day — arrived . |
29 | He was born on the same day as Sarah but he 's an hour earlier . |
30 | 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 . |