Example sentences of "god [unc] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 2 | So keen is Berkeley on the idea that the existence of real objects consists in their actually being perceived , that he appears to explain their continuity , not by a readiness on God 's part to excite ideas in us , but rather by God 's own continued perception . |
| 3 | If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’ |
| 4 | When those hopes are dashed so soon , not only by a cruel foreign king , but by God 's own people , then the story turns to bleak tragedy , and becomes unbearable . |
| 5 | Balaam can do nothing but pronounce God 's own words of blessing upon them , while Balak grows ever more frustrated and angry . |
| 6 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 7 | This time it comes from God 's own lips , the crime of Hophni and Phinehas is declared to be blasphemy , Eli is condemned for not restraining them , and the speech ends with a divine oath making it irrevocably clear that there is nothing these three priests can do to ward off the coming disaster . |
| 8 | Our other values , arrangements , cares and concerns are eclipsed before the wonder of God 's own presence with us . |
| 9 | As we saw in chapter ten , the beatitudes of Jesus express the radicalism of living under the rule of God 's own character . |
| 10 | This then leads us to explore ultimate happiness in God 's own being . |
| 11 | This is why no fewer than eight different terms are used to convey the richness of the law , which reveals God 's own character . |
| 12 | And thus the poet knows that the silent rows of stars carry God 's own invitation to the individual soul . ’ |
| 13 | Then he had inherited a romantic faith that one day God 's own city , Jerusalem , where he had suffered and died and been buried , would be rescued from the infidel . |
| 14 | As this spirit rules our hearts and minds we shall be fashioning a Burma after God 's own heart . |
| 15 | Coleridge thus moved beyond Schleiermacher in stressing the personal in God 's own being , though , like Schleiermacher , he too tended to place the theological centre of gravity in the inner experience of faith . |
| 16 | The aim of this introductory study ( ‘ prolegomena ’ ) was to make clear the basis for the entire enterprise and the methods which it would use , and the emphasis on ‘ the doctrine of the Word of God ’ signalled Barth 's intention to ground it on God 's own revelation of himself and nothing else . |
| 17 | The primary form is God 's own self-expression , his eternal Word which was made flesh in Jesus ; the secondary form is the witness of the Bible in Old and New Testaments to that primary Word , the witness by which the Word itself is mediated and heard ; the tertiary form is the proclamation of Jesus Christ in the church as the Word of God to us . |
| 18 | IV ) , each being developed with reference to the trinitarian structure of God 's own being as Father , Son and Holy Spirit . |
| 19 | In Jesus ' own relation of sonship to the Father , a relation which is mediated and empowered by the Holy Spirit , the triune structure of God 's own eternal being as Father , Son and Holy Spirit is shown as the eternal ground within God of the human person and history of Jesus . |
| 20 | God 's own moral sentiments are correct because , as the perfect being , he has perfect insight into what is independently morally good and bad , right and wrong . |
| 21 | I 'll not have any child of mine disobeying not only me , but turning her back on God 's own holy ordinance ! ’ |
| 22 | For Jesus himself , the incarnate Son of God , accepted it as God 's own word to man . |
| 23 | — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest . |
| 24 | The parallel between Abraham 's sacrifice and the greater sacrifice of God 's own Son is striking — yet the lesson Hebrews draws from this chapter is one of faith . |
| 25 | Moses ' long communion with God shows in his face when he returns to the people : he begins to reflect something of God 's own glory ( see 2 Corinthians 3–18 ) . |
| 26 | — The emphasis on ethics and morality , stemming from God 's own absolute moral holiness ; sin as a bar to communion ; the need for repentance and atonement ; the insistence on obedience to God 's law ( moral as well as ceremonial ) . |
| 27 | Line B makes clear that the perspective upon the nations and their significance in comparison with God ( , line A ) is God 's own . |
| 28 | In other words , the numerical identity of monads is guaranteed by God 's own inherent " rationality " . |
| 29 | God 's own country . |
| 30 | A new Spirit , God 's own Spirit within man , which would warm his heart to want to go God 's way , and enable his will to keep it . |