Example sentences of "[be] god [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're God 's standards . |
| 2 | ‘ Bloody nurses , think they 're God 's gift with their sexy stockings and belts . ’ |
| 3 | They imagine they 're God 's gift to us ! |
| 4 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 5 | Some few may write a Declaration , others may sign it , but they are stating what has been God 's law from the beginning , ‘ That all men are created equal … that … ’ ’ he paused and consulted his watch again , opening and closing the engraved case with a brisk snap . |
| 6 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |
| 7 | The State should take the roles that charities are forced to provide for the sick , needy and downtrodden of all races , sexes and sexual orientations , and the churches , if they are God 's houses on Earth , should highlight problems and press for change . |
| 8 | But it could also mean the even more staggering truth that the saints are God 's inheritance , and pose the question to what extent he-is allowed the freehold of that inheritance which is our lives . |
| 9 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 10 | Erm and I have been plugging the line that what underpins Locke 's , what underpins Locke 's general political position is his theology , his basically Calvinist notion of how human individuals are related to God , they are God 's servants sent into the world about his business , that 's what they 're here for and that 's what governs all their obligations , they 're rights and so on . |
| 11 | Gandhi is unable to harbour the thought , even secretly , that another man 's faith is inferior to his own because of his belief that different faiths are God 's creation and thereby equally holy . |
| 12 | Ephesians 2:10 states , ‘ For we are God 's workmanship , created in Christ Jesus to do good works , which God prepared in advance for us to do . ’ |
| 13 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
| 14 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 15 | Those who will not be God 's sons become his tools ’ ; and Ilúvatar to Melkor , ‘ no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me … he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful , which he himself hath not imagined ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 16 | Extra-sensory perception , however , seems to be an over-grand , and possibly misleading title for what may simply be God 's pre-programming of his animal kingdom . |
| 17 | Three weeks ago , we looked at God 's call to Jeremiah ; it taught us about God , and about the prophet who had been called to be God 's spokesman to His people Israel . |
| 18 | Those whose calling it is to be God 's agents of reconciliation are vulnerable to the ordinary wear and tear of any who seek to serve among the wayward and weak , the blocked and blighted among beautiful people unable to realise their potential . |
| 19 | They believe this to be God 's will and that anything that hinders this is contrary to the will of God . |
| 20 | The revelation is seen to have been essentially unaffected by surrounding circumstances , or indeed the historical circumstances of that time are believed to be revealed to be God 's will for humankind . |
| 21 | Certainly she could be rebellious at times in her nature but she was always quick to re-dedicate herself to what she felt to be God 's will . |
| 22 | Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events . |
| 23 | As though he had not tried always to be God 's knight , and do the church clean service . |
| 24 | But oh , it 's it 's , it can never ever be God 's fault because he always , always deals with us in love . |
| 25 | But behind these was known to be God 's Enemy variously named as ‘ Satan , the devil , ( a false accuser , slanderer , calumniator , ) the evil one , the ruler of this world , the prince of the power of the air , Belial , Beelzebub , the god of this world , the destroyer , a murderer from the beginning and the enemy . ’ |
| 26 | He should avoid sins for which a change of fortune may well be God 's punishment . |
| 27 | Chapter 3 ( DV 11–13 ) deals quietly with two ancient questions mal posées that were still causing storms : the question of ‘ inspiration ’ ( or how human authors wrote ‘ God 's Word ’ ) and that of ‘ inerrancy ’ ( or how far everything they wrote must be God 's truth ) . |
| 28 | It could be God 's gift … ’ |
| 29 | God has a stupendous commission for Moses — he is to be God 's messenger to Pharaoh , and lead his people to freedom — but the missionary is most reluctant . |
| 30 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |