Example sentences of "that god had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Echoing Plato , Galileo claimed that God had created the world according to mathematical proportions . |
| 2 | From that moment , I never doubted that God had put the right man , Vitalis , in the right place at the appropriate time . |
| 3 | The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . |
| 4 | Cecil retired to his study to ponder the explanation that God had acted mercifully . |
| 5 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 6 | It was clear at breakfast , however , that God had not made Mr Cottle sate . |
| 7 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 8 | To John Calvin , among others , it simply proved that God had pre-destined some to eternal salvation and some to eternal damnation before they were born . |
| 9 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 10 | I had once read a story by Arthur C. Clarke about a Tibetan sect which believed that God had nine billion names . |
| 11 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |
| 12 | The hair that God had left him was sparse , dry and vertical , as if he brushed it forward every morning . |
| 13 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 14 | I say that the greatest tragedy in the world today is that God had made man in his image and made him to worship him , made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night , but he has failed God and dropped the harp . |
| 15 | He had only recently joined QP and considered it important that he should serve the Church and enjoy worshipping the Lord in the place that God had put him . |
| 16 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 17 | Dr Johnson was of the view that there were a lot of mouths , especially in the families with thirteen children , that God had forgotten to feed . |
| 18 | St Augustine taught that God had created man in his own image and so it was by looking at his own soul that man would discover God : ‘ May I know myself ! may I know thee ! ’ he had cried . |
| 19 | Tolkien perhaps found difficulty in explaining to a Jesuit why a ‘ fundamentally ’ Catholic work should cut out references to religion , but the reason is clear : he thought , or hoped , that God had a plan for pre-Catholics too . |
| 20 | When the man first tempted her and then rejected her , she was ‘ all shamed and confused in herself ’ , was afflicted with horrible temptations to lechery and despair , and ‘ the devil put into her mind that God had forsaken her ’ . |
| 21 | It was hard to remember that God had made them , too , and that He begged for leniency for them . |
| 22 | He said to me that God had given him a chance to expiate his past life , and that was what he was going to do . |
| 23 | Proponents of scientific inquiry would often argue that God had revealed Himself in two books — the book of His words ( the Bible ) and the book of His works ( nature ) . |
| 24 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 25 | It was important to make available the hidden resources in nature that God had created for suffering humanity . |
| 26 | Was there not the assurance that God had demonstrated a concern for humanity , irrespective of spatial coordinates ? |
| 27 | But Genesis delivered the coup de grace , for it was stated that God had rested on the seventh day , not that he had immediate y started work on other worlds . |
| 28 | Mark Twain fancifully observed that God had modelled heaven on Mauritius , a thought which has been echoed by thousands of travellers who have since discovered the untapped beauty and raw charm of this lovely isle . |
| 29 | The fact that God had done it once meant that he could do it again . |
| 30 | Again Peter heard the voice , telling him that he must not call things unclean that God had made . |