Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] born [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can learn the techniques of counselling just as one can learn to sing or to run but one will still be in a different league from those who were born with these skills . |
| 2 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 3 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 4 | He and Anne had a large family of ten children , who were born between 1799 and 1817 . |
| 5 | He makes a special point of mentioning the people who were born in those homes and what became of them , particularly if they achieved fame later in life . |
| 6 | He makes a special point of mentioning the people who were born in those homes and what became of them , particularly if they achieved fame later in life . |
| 7 | We will have another half dozen players who were born before 1920 . ’ |
| 8 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 9 | Although he did know George Gardner , who was born on 19th September 1778 , he did not mention meeting his father Daniel Gardner , the portrait painter who was born in 1750 and died in 1805 . |
| 10 | Pendley Goldfinch , who was born on 27 September 1980 and bred by Joanne Yates . |
| 11 | Rudi Anton Bali , who was born on 8 December 1979 and bred by Mr and Mrs Radcliffe . |
| 12 | William Hogarth , who was born on 9th . |
| 13 | Gbos Gaytimes , who was born on 21 November 1976 . |
| 14 | The other two national winners are Tracy Young , who was born with two holes in her heart and could n't walk til she was five — her prize was for her personal achievement in ballroom and latin dancing … and Ronnie Broomhall who is the first person in the country with learning difficulties to become a qualified amateur gymnastics coach . |
| 15 | And brave Cheryl , 35 , who was born with major arteries the wrong way round , wept when she read her daughter 's plea . |
| 16 | He was a thalidomide baby who was born with deformed legs — the right one was later amputated when Geoff was 12 . |
| 17 | The patient was Bryan Ahlers , an eight day-old boy from New York , who was born with severe physical problems . |
| 18 | Belgium is making preparations to celebrate the centenary of René Magritte , who was born in 1898 , amid considerable regret that a large part of the artist 's private collection was lost to the nation following the death of his widow . |
| 19 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 20 | William Shaw was a Primitive Methodist circuit minister who was born in 1854 and died in 1931 . |
| 21 | Although he did know George Gardner , who was born on 19th September 1778 , he did not mention meeting his father Daniel Gardner , the portrait painter who was born in 1750 and died in 1805 . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who was born in 1948 , was effectively excluded under the new amendment from contesting the 1992 presidential election . |
| 23 | Some convicted men went over the wall and the judge , who was born in that very prison , called for an improvement in security at the prison . |
| 24 | Basil 's home as recalled in some memories of childhood by his sister Janet Muriel Livingstone " who was born in 1902 |
| 25 | He was the hearing son of one of the most remarkable deaf men of recent times — George Annand Mackenzie , who was born in 1868 as one of three deaf brothers . |
| 26 | One such director was Maclean Rogers who was born in 1899 . |
| 27 | Settis , who was born in Southern Italy in 1941 , is by training a classical archaeologist , but his writings range beyond Antiquity and include a study on the meaning of Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ , articles on Aby Warburg , the founder of the great library now part of London University , and — very much in the Warburg tradition — an edition of papers on the classical tradition in Italian art , La memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana ( 1984–86 ) . |
| 28 | but she had a grandson before that , she had a grandson who was born in eighteen ninety three and his name was on . |
| 29 | Or , in so doing , sound like that man in Journey Into Space who was born in 1945 and died in 1939 ? |
| 30 | Lewandowsky , who was born in 1963 , became famous in West Germany and beyond for the ‘ reproductive painting ’ which form an integral part of his installations commenting on contemporary issues . |