Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] be born [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 2 | At the time of Dr. Arthur 's trial , a Mrs. Carr , who had been born without arms , was standing as an independent pro-life candidate in a forthcoming by-election . |
| 3 | His eldest son Theuderic ( 511 – 33 ) ruled from Rheims , and the sons who had been born to Chlothild , Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) and Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) , ruled from Orléans , Paris and Soissons respectively . |
| 4 | In June 1940 , Dean Pollard had reported to the committee that an infant , Margaret C. , who had been born at St. Peter 's , and who had a double harelip and cleft palate , had been referred to the Children 's Hospital , Great Ormond Street . |
| 5 | His mother was hunting , his father watching from a rock a little way off , and Creggan was trying to win food from his bigger stronger sibling , another male , who had been born before him . |
| 6 | For Edmund 's mother was Henry 's cousin Philippa , the daughter of Lionel , duke of Clarence who had been born before John of Gaunt . |
| 7 | Over the Irish Sea , an Irish Republican who had been born in New York , U.S.A. — and therefore , legally an American citizen — Eamon De Valera , became President of the Irish Free State . |
| 8 | But Horowitz , who had been born in Hungary , was no slouch himself at communications . |
| 9 | Dr Ursula Blackwell , who had been born in India interested me . |
| 10 | Asked to explain , he said he meant Gainsborough , who had been born in Sudbury . |
| 11 | Like most of the nomes who had been born in the Store he hated looking up and not seeing a ceiling . |
| 12 | He knew which cinemas occasionally showed good films , and which cinemas never ; he knew about a painter who had been born in Northam , and whose work could be seen in a room at the Public Library . |
| 13 | So did that of Emanuel Shinwell , the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish origin , who had been born in London 's East End , but whose family later settled in Glasgow . |
| 14 | The third patient was a Jewish woman who had been born in Tunisia ( a cluster of cases of the mutation has occurred in such patients ) ; she did not have any known familial history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ) . |
| 15 | In 1929 he married Hermine Antscherl , an Austrian who had been born in Vienna in 1894 . |
| 16 | He was the younger son and youngest of three children of John Lambden Ross , described as ‘ of independent means ’ on the birth certificate , who was of mixed Scottish and Latin American blood , born in Havana , and his wife Gertrude Mary Pollok , who had been born in Calcutta , the daughter of a colonel in the Indian Army . |
| 17 | French citizen Jacqueline Valente , her Belgian companion Fernand Houtekens and their daughter ( who had been born in captivity ) Sophie-Liberté Valente were released in Beirut on April 10 by representatives of the Libyan-sponsored Fatah Revolutionary Council ( FRC ) . |