Example sentences of "have [be] born [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures . |
| 2 | No one but an old Londoner who has been born and bred and has lived for 50 to 60 years in London can have any idea of the extent of the change . |
| 3 | when it was envisaged as a form of national salvation ? it was conceived in compassion but has been born and bred in authoritarianism , profligacy and frustration , it aimed to liberate people from the slums but has come to represent an even worse form of bondage , it aspired to beautify the urban environment , but has been transmogrified into the epitome of ugliness . |
| 4 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 5 | George : ‘ You would n't have been born and writing for THE FACE if it was n't for someone spunking off . ’ |
| 6 | One must have been born and have worked all one 's life in such a landscape to understand its secret life , to be able to feel its poetry , and to express it . |
| 7 | VALERY Ponomarev may have been born and brought up in Moscow , but the idiom and vocabulary of his music is pure New York . |
| 8 | However , having been born and raised in England by an Irish father and an English mother I believe that I understand English attitudes quite well . |
| 9 | Part of this region is now known as Tennyson Country and is indeed a perfect paradise for a potential poet to have been born and bred in . |
| 10 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
| 11 | They save their wrath for other working-class youths like themselves , who happen to have been born or grown up somewhere else . |
| 12 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 13 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 14 | ( Yet another of Constanze 's pregnancies had ended in tragedy : another daughter , Anna , had been born and died the previous November . |
| 15 | David Park had been born and reared in New Cumnock and had worked in the pits in the area . |
| 16 | Nigel had been born and reared in Bath and I in Bushey , Hertfordshire . |
| 17 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 18 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 19 | This bespectacled bear of a man had been born and lived here all his life , and was now Makassar 's sole expert and international exporter of the rare shells and orchids for which the archipelago had once been so famous . |
| 20 | Here , in Danu , I had a meaning ; it was where I had been born and lived . |
| 21 | He had been born and lived all his life over the shop : E. Garland and Son , Artists ' Suppliers and Printers . |
| 22 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 23 | Clearly , therefore , children preferred the inner-city environment and family life in which they had been born and reared . |
| 24 | He is a married man living with his family in the Creggan estate where he himself had been born and reared . ’ |
| 25 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 26 | He had been born and bred on the river , but had never seen anything like it before . |
| 27 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 28 | One in particular rose to a position of power and influence ; Robert Erskine , a son of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva , who had been born and educated in Edinburgh , became Peter the Great 's personal physician , confidante and adviser . |
| 29 | The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot . |
| 30 | She and Gillian were both in the Leprechauns , being both had Irish parents , although they themselves had been born and brought up in England . |