Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] birth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 2 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 3 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 4 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 5 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 6 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 7 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 8 | She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose . |
| 9 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 10 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 11 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 12 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 13 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 14 | When the Dauphine had just given birth ( in front of numerous ambassadors , foreign princes and courtiers ) , a sheep was skinned alive in her bedroom so that the exhausted mother could be wrapped in its fleece . |
| 15 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 16 | How her mother had just given birth to another child , her fifth , this time a boy . |
| 17 | Post-natal depression is a distressing phenomenon where women who have just given birth feel fed up , weepy , do n't like the baby , do n't want to be mothers , ca n't really take an interest in it . |
| 18 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 19 | Proposals made thus far in this respect include protection at work for pregnant women or those who have already given birth ; pro rata equation of the rights of ‘ a-typical ’ ( part-time seasonal and temporary ) workers with those of full-time workers ; working hours ; establishment of European works councils [ see pp. 45 — 6 ] ; proof of employment contract ; and minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile work sites , such as construction sites and safety signs in the workplace . |
| 20 | In Plutarch 's account Isis had already given birth to her son Horus , but Egyptian sources relate that she conceived the child from her husband 's dead body . |
| 21 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 22 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 23 | The likelihood of a redrawing of the 817 project had surely been on the horizon since Louis married Judith ( especially so if , as seems likely , she had already given birth to a daughter , Gisèle , in 821 ) . |
| 24 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 25 | ( They 're primitive , semi-humanoid exters who have n't given up being cannibals despite sharply reduced birth rate . |
| 26 | Legal abortion may have its greatest demographic impact in reducing pre-maritally conceived births and ‘ forced ’ marriages . |
| 27 | Looking now at all legitimate births , not just first births , remarried women contributed 7 per cent of the 40,231 pre-maritally conceived births in 1976 , 18 per cent of the 41,250 in 1986 . |
| 28 | The Imperial Russian tradition of grand display pieces has painlessly given birth to Grigorovich 's epics — grand , without doubt , but lumpen compared with Balanchine 's irreverent classicism or MacMillan 's exploratory dance-dramas . |
| 29 | Demands for the training and registration of midwives , to prevent avoidable infant mortality due to inexpertly attended births , had emerged before the Boer War . |
| 30 | OUTSIDE the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children conference hall at Keele last weekend , two young women from Antrim branch were discussing how a woman had recently given birth to a hairy baby with dog 's ears . |