Example sentences of "was bear of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paulos is a professor of mathematics ; his book , he owns , was born of indignation and he writes with passion , tempered however by good humour . |
| 2 | The special relationship was born of a common heritage , but it was nurtured by American and British self-interest as well . |
| 3 | There was companionship in his silence because it was born of a deep reserve which required help at times to find expression . |
| 4 | Jezebel , therefore , was Elizabeth of England , that she-wolf , monster of vice and cruelty , sprung of vicious and degenerate stock , for she was born of the incestuous relationship between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn , who was not only his wife but also his illegitimate daughter . |
| 5 | The gesture , according to Hollywood lore , was born of Henreid 's nervous incompetence at lighting Davis 's cigarette in the conventional fashion , and was suggested by the director after an unacceptable number of botched ‘ takes ’ . |
| 6 | Narayan Raghavan Pillai was born of Nair ( warrior ) stock on July 24 1898 at Trivandrum , in the state of Travancore and Cochin . |
| 7 | It was born of fear for her grandfather , he thought as he returned to his butchery of the President 's shotgun . |
| 8 | She was born of noble stock and loved the old genteel way of life , and the people of the village loved her . |
| 9 | The chimera was born of the half-serpent , half-woman ECHIDNA and the giant TYPHON . |
| 10 | Along with his evil twin brother he was born of Ataensic , the earth goddess . |
| 11 | Huitzilopochtli was born of the goddess COATLIQUE , and she was made aware of his conception when a wreath of blue humming-bird feathers fell from the sky . |
| 12 | A myth of creation states that Buddha was born of a thousand-petalled gold lotus , which hereafter became Lakshmi 's womb , and a source of both mental and physical succour for pilgrims seeking solace . |
| 13 | A DJ for nine years since he was sixteen , Djaimin was born of an Italian father and English mum — but we still had to use Mike as an interpreter . |
| 14 | In the Middle East there was a tradition of religious pluralism and the new faiths of Judaism and Zoroastrianism and — later — Christianity and Islam coexisted in relative harmony ; in India during the seventeenth century , some Muslims and Hindus pooled their ideas and attempted to find a common vision : Sikhism was born of this attempt . |
| 15 | The idea of a naturalistic ethics was born of a deeply teleological outlook , and its best expression , in many ways , is still to be found in Aristotle 's philosophy , a philosophy according to which there is inherent in each natural kind of thing an appropriate way for things of that kind to behave . |
| 16 | British fascism was born of the failure of economic conservatism to check the rapid decline of Britain in the inter-war years . |
| 17 | The idea for a consortium was born of the year-old fiber channel alliance between HP and IBM , according to Ed Frymoyer the HP alliance manager who is also heading up FCSI . |
| 18 | We could , however , challenge a man who asserted that , as a matter of historical fact , Cortés ( like Quetzalcoatl ) was born of an eagle and a serpent , or that Cortés was ordained to save the world , or that Cortés never died and now bides his time in some underground crypt awaiting a propitious moment to return and proclaim his sovereignty over Mexico . |
| 19 | That he could even think of illustrating that perversity with purveyors of a contrary cosmology suggests that his opposition was born of the common conviction that a moving earth violated common sense . |
| 20 | The alliance of America , Russia and Britain , the ‘ Big Three ’ powers who defeated Hitler , was born of dire necessity in 1941 . |
| 21 | For slowly , propelled by some unseen force , the coffin began to jerk sideways , until it reached the wall of the chapel , when a trapdoor opened , and in a series of irregular jerks , man that was born of woman disappeared into the wings . |
| 22 | Though an inexorable development of the centuries-old political struggle , we shall see how the present violence ‘ was born of the denial of civil rights to the Roman Catholic minority . |
| 23 | It is no coincidence that , as Barthes reminds us , rhetoric was born of a property dispute ( 1970a:90 ) . |
| 24 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 25 | Costakis was born of Greek parents in the USSR and lived there in various protected diplomatic capabilities until 1977 , quietly collecting the great art of the 1920s which Stalin had declared decadent and unacceptable . |
| 26 | The model of responsible party government was born of this experience and it tended to elevate the politics of the moment into a law of nature that has distracted attention from the more fluid aspects of Britain 's political experience . |
| 27 | The Shared Earth Trust was born of a belief that we share the land with all living creatures and have a duty to preserve its riches . |
| 28 | ‘ I was born of a Gascon father and an English mother in the town of Béarn near the village of Bordeaux . |
| 29 | While Miles was influenced by the American Beats , and by a literary culture , Farren 's somewhat more street-based style was born of the rock culture , which took in everything from Brando and The Wild One from the mid 1950s through early Elvis to Dylan and the Rolling Stones . |
| 30 | All the radical soul-searching was born of basic economic security . |