Example sentences of "[noun prp] be born [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thomas Patrick Courtney was born 46 years ago in Newtonbutler , Co Fermanagh .
2 Dorothy Stanton Wise was born deaf at Dover where she was educated at home by her mother who had taken her to see the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton for advice .
3 Lorna Ross was born two weeks early , on Christmas Eve , after mother Allison , 26 , was rushed to hospital from home at Hartcliffe , Bristol , for surgery .
4 Sir Arthur Fairbairn was born deaf to Sir Thomas Fairbairn , and was the grandson of Sir William Fairbairn who was a great inventor and builder of bridges and dockyards which earned him a fortune .
5 Yet that earlier birthdate ( JS was born 15 years later ) makes all the difference in terms of musical style .
6 After that he is more specific , and begins to refer to Caesar in this context , saying that himself and Brutus were born equal to Caesar in health and intelligence , yet Caesar is now looked upon as a man of such importance .
7 Orlando was born 10 years ago .
8 There are tales of hands withering , of buildings being burned , and of children conceived on Sunday being born deformed .
9 not , not like erm any descendants that would go on from Adam were born imperfect were n't they ?
10 PERCY Bysshe Shelley was born 200 years ago this week , though you would n't have noticed it .
11 On Christmas Eve I said Christ was born many years ago tonight .
12 Andrew Miles was born blind in his left eye and lost his sight completely at 26 due to glaucoma .
13 My sister Mary was born eighteen months after me .
14 Perhaps people like Sheridan were born that way , as if without arms .
15 Constance was born healthy and remained so .
16 The Act of 1976 does not apply in the present case as Tina Burton was born disabled on 26 April 1967 and Christopher De Martell was born disabled on 5 February 1967 .
17 It seems that Panna was born asexual — with no visible sexual characteristics — into a poor family who lived in a village near Varanasi .
18 Caroline Spears says she was given no option but to have a caesarian section when her daughter Freya was born eighteen months ago .
19 Beverley Lewis was born blind , deaf and mentally handicapped .
20 Their son Sean was born 26 January 1904 ( died 1988 ) .
21 Their son George was born 11 January 1890 ( died 1891 ) and their daughter Iseult was born 6 August 1894 ( died 1954 ) .
22 The Act of 1976 does not apply in the present case as Tina Burton was born disabled on 26 April 1967 and Christopher De Martell was born disabled on 5 February 1967 .
23 William Agnew was born deaf in Glasgow , and at an early age was sent to be educated at the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , where he proved to be a remarkable scholar .
24 I have already mentioned that Carl was born seven years after the marriage of our parents .
25 Heather Murray was born 7 weeks ago with a heart condition and has spent most of her young life in hospital .
26 Baby Victoria Reece was born blind and brain damaged at Hereford County Hospital .
27 The trauma began when Sophie was born last year , severely brain damaged .
28 Alexander Ferguson was born deaf in Dundee , and was sent to the Edinburgh Institution for the Deaf and Dumb .
29 I am pleased to say that Thomas was born healthy and happy , and both he and his mother are well.NT
30 ‘ Since Natasha was born six months ago , I 'm used to being disturbed in the middle of the night . ’
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