Example sentences of "[be] [adv] god ['s] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tell yourself that , like the dung beetle and the greater horned toad , secret intelligence personnel are also God 's creatures .
2 It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God .
3 Belief in miracles was linked with belief in angels , who were traditionally God 's messengers .
4 The apparent parallel between the development of the human individual and the history of life on earth is thus God 's symbol telling us that we are the goal of His creation .
5 Recognise that it is not God 's will that Satan strip mission field workers through sickness .
6 A good reason then for thinking that it is not God 's will that women be ordained is that the church has never done so .
7 He does not actually forbid remarriage for those whose partner has died , but his view seems to be that this is not God 's purpose for marriage .
8 … and is not God 's way
9 Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there
10 ‘ It 's not God 's intentions !
11 Love has to move from idea to reality , and that is always God 's way — the way of incarnation .
12 Th the er the anointing of the Holy Spirit , they 're the , th every single thing , every area , our growth , our maturity , whilst we might have input into it , it is still God 's gift to us .
13 How could he say that there was only God 's insistence , even though He abided by no rules Himself , that His strictures should be discovered and obeyed ?
14 He might be the Kaiser 's friend , but he was not God 's friend .
15 Well , of course , there 's a sense in which he could easily have prayed for them , but at that moment , in that particular place , that was not God 's purpose .
16 And let us be quite clear that the fact that any particular system does n't go on for ever does n't mean it was n't God 's will when it came in .
17 It was essentially God 's act — " with mighty hand and outstretched arm " .
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