noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birth certificate
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In order to get a passport, you'll need your birth certificate.
a birth defect (= one that you are born with )
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About 11% of children have birth defects.
a cycle of poverty/activity/birth and death etc
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the cycle of violence between the two countries
birth certificate
birth control
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a safe method of birth control
birth father
birth mother
birth parent
breech birth
have a baby/give birth to a baby
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She had the baby at home.
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Sue gave birth to a baby boy.
multiple birth
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The number of multiple births has risen sharply.
noble family/blood/birth etc
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a member of an ancient noble family
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The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood.
register a birth/death/marriage
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The baby’s birth was registered this morning.
sb's birth parents (= the ones who are biologically related to them )
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Only half the children who are adopted wish to discover their birth parents.
sb’s date of birth ( also sb’s birth date ) (= the day and year when someone was born )
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What’s your date of birth?
sb’s place of birth formal
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I need to know his date of birth, and his place of birth.
the birth rate
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In many developing countries, birth rates are falling.
virgin birth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
given
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A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher.
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This horse has just given birth to a foal. b. This mare has just given birth to a foal.
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To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us, she says.
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What good was this love that she should never have given birth to?
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Meg had just given birth to a baby.
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The degree of glucose intolerance for any given birth weight was influenced independently by body mass index in adulthood.
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She's just given birth to daughter Rosie.
high
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The high birth rates of the 1950s and 1960s are projected to increase the numbers of young elderly from 2011.
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Aid workers say areas that were heavily bombed now have high rates of birth defects, sterility and mental retardation.
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Nevertheless, high birth rates ensured that society was far more youthful in its composition than it is today.
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Moreover, the high number of births in a family is offset by the high incidence of infant mortality.
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The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on.
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According to the theory, pre-industrial populations can be characterized by high levels of birth and death rates, and low growth rates.
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But third births increased by almost a quarter, and higher order births by 18 percent.
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In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances.
live
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In 1976, 69 % of live births were to women in their 20s and 20 % to women in their 30s.
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A couple in 1925-29 made do with 2.2 live births .
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The number of abortions performed each year was estimated at between 300,000 and 600,000, compared with 550,000 live births .
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In 1928, 620,627 live births were recorded, compared with 950,782 in 1920.
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Introduction Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis occurs in about 3/1000 live births .
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Usually expressed as the ratio of fetal deaths; i.e. the number of fetal deaths per 1,000 live births .
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Three live births out of sixteen transfers is 18.8 per cent.
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If you are not trying to produce live births , then cattle do have advantages over sheep.
low
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Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
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He has an incorrigible fondness for persons of low birth and spends most of the day with them.
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Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth.
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Meanwhile, Augustine formed a liaison with a woman of low birth by whom he had a son.
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This fall reflects in particular the low birth rates of the 1920s and 1930s.
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These low birth rates were sustained for twenty years.
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But no country has yet managed to achieve a low birth rate while infant deaths rates remain high.
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Unsurprisingly, families are severely stressed, as evidenced by low birth rates and high death rates.
multiple
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We knew there was a chance of a multiple birth but nothing can prepare you for something like that.
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While multiple births have increased in recent years because of the success of fertility drugs, sextuplets still are rare.
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And it would have shown on the certificate, the time of birth - it's only done for multiple births.
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But those clinics that continue to record a high multiple birth rate will find their records investigated.
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Store bosses decided to award the bonus to delighted Teresa Elliott and hubby Steve after learning about the multiple birth .
noble
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He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress.
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This woman of noble birth chose to study philosophy rather than relish in her beauty.
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His long fingernails attest that his was not a life of hard physical labour but that he was probably of noble birth .
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Its ranks are open to all young men of noble birth regardless of where they live within the Empire.
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According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth , who was promised to a pagan.
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There is nothing surprising in this continuing emphasis on noble birth and high social rank.
premature
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Low birth weight usually indicates premature births that are also often immature births.
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They also noticed numerous miscarriages, premature births , and birth defects-including gross malformations-among soldiers' children.
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The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year.
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And there was no doubt that Kalchu, though younger, had dealt with a great many premature births before this one.
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They suffered the heartbreak of losing three children through premature births .
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Immature births are often, but not necessarily, premature births.
virgin
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If we are truthful we may admit that we find the ideas of the virgin birth or the resurrection incredulous.
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In the absence of divine intervention, virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
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It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen.
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There is no knowledge of the idea of the virgin birth in the Church before the Gospels were written.
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Again the virgin birth , in view of what we now know of human reproduction, has become highly suspect for people.
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The angel's answer is part of the foundation of the teaching about the virgin birth .
■ NOUN
certificate
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On my birth certificate it states that I was born in Oban, which seems an unlikely place for the second coming.
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The findings were based on examining all birth certificates registered in all the states and the District of Columbia.
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How do I apply for a birth certificate ?
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I've seen my birth certificate .
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Researchers limited their report to statistics gathered on birth certificates , which allowed for analysis of cities.
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The official birth certificate shows he was registered as Liam Butler.
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Part of the program would require states to develop more tamper-proof birth certificates and drivers licenses.
control
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Sterilisation may be the ideal method of birth control for couples who are sure they have completed their family.
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There are, moreover, other barriers to using birth control .
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Many feminists were also interested in birth control as an issue although discretion dictated a public silence.
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Meanwhile, the birth control movement was becoming more respectable.
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This information leaflet replaces those previously issued and those under the title Modern methods of birth control .
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After the 1980 elections, we knew that the rights to both birth control and abortion were at risk.
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Except not the end of the episode if there were a failure of a birth control measure and the result was conception.
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Couples desperate not to have a child sometimes fail to use birth control .
date
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They filed in, giving birth dates and names.
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He kept his birth date a mystery, but according to the Baseball Encyclopedia he already was 42.
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From Seymour Direct, it has easy-to-read numbers and is personalised with the child's name and birth date .
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It asks my birth date , if I have any children and my marital status.
defect
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Obvious other exclusions include blindness and deafness as well as rare birth defects .
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Aid workers say areas that were heavily bombed now have high rates of birth defects , sterility and mental retardation.
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It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers, retarded crop growth and caused birth defects .
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In some areas of the Black Triangle, ten per-cent of all live births resulted in infants with crippling birth defects .
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It is thought that the right-handed molecule produced the therapeutic effect but the left-handed molecule produced the birth defects .
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Early reports of birth defects l inked to the Gulf War syndrome have been disproved, Whitesides said.
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They also claim that fluoride potentially causes birth defects .
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I say, pointing to the sign behind the bar, warning pregnant women that drinking alcohol can cause birth defects .
home
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We will increase the availability both of treatment by women health professionals and of home birth .
order
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Parasitic infections were high regardless of family size and appeared unrelated to birth order .
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But as Sulloway was plugging away, other scientists were busy debunking birth order .
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Indeed, it is worth remembering that the effect of birth order may vary with maternal age.
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Jules Angst and Cecile Ernst, published a survey of all the birth order research from 1946 to 1980.
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Though maternal age and birth order have an independent effect on the viability of the fetus, that act together.
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This group of work-inhibited students was quite evenly divided in terms of birth order .
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In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances.
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Still birth ratios also increase with birth order in each birth interval category.
parent
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For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents .
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Adopted children and birth parents are registering at Web archives with hopes of making matches.
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After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents .
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Allowing birth parents to express their emotions can be an important part of confronting their grief.
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None of the children wanted to go and live with their birth parents , but simply to keep contact.
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Attempts at reuniting them with their birth parents will have failed.
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Tracing birth parents Having obtained their original birth certificate, adoptees can start tracing their birth parents.
rate
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However, the numbers are decreasing as the birth rate decreases generally.
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The teen birth rate has declined for all ethnicities.
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Average birth rates for women in developing countries have fallen from six per woman to three in the past three decades.
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Nevertheless, high birth rates ensured that society was far more youthful in its composition than it is today.
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By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.
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The birth rate will only be cut, however, if the health prospects of poor families are improved.
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The fall in the birth rate in the 1970s means that the number of people entering the labour market today is falling.
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A country renowned for its love of large, close families now has the lowest birth rate in the developed world.
weight
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Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
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Low birth weight is another measure of the well-being of infants and children.
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Expected values of birth weight for gestational age were obtained by regressing the natural logarithm of birth weight on gestational age.
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Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth.
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Our results confirm the relation between birth weight and lung function measurements reported in other studies.
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In contrast to a previous report, we found no significant inverse relations between birth weight and blood pressure.
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This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight , gestational age, and respiratory symptoms.
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For children with normal length of gestation there was a positive association between birth weight and lung function.
■ VERB
die
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He believes that the medical profession is encouraging Down's babies to die at birth because of ignorance and fear.
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Lothair died shortly after the birth of their daughter Emma.
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If two tailless Manx cats are mated, the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth .
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His father, a comptroller of customs, had died months before his birth .
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They had one son, who died at birth .
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The couple had had a son who died shortly after birth .
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She had died in giving birth to Selene, having already been nearly ruined by the birth of Dinah.
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A neighbor, W. H. Tonn, had several cattle die or give birth to stillborn calves after the explosion.
give
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The Birmingham Canal, authorised in 1768, in effect gave birth to a port.
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The dancers would dance, the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl.
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Locklear has just given birth to a daughter.
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One female rock star likened the feeling to the one some women have after giving birth - lets have another one.
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It is now universally agreed that HIV-2 can not have given birth to HIV-1.
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Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.
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Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
register
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But even when both parents register a birth , they may not stay together long.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the virgin birth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congratulations on the birth of your daughter!
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It's quite common now for fathers to be present at the birth of their babies.
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It was a very difficult birth .
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Most birds cannot identify their parents at birth and simply follow the first moving object they see.
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the birth of a nation
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the birth of photography
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There have been three births in our family this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Childless, they were free, not constrained - constraining - links between birth and death.
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In a large sample of adolescents low birth weight was associated with increased prevalence of asthma.
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Low birth weight is another measure of the well-being of infants and children.
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That your children love you back is nearly as miraculous as their birth .
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This causes temporary softening of the ligaments in preparation for the birth .
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Two months later she gave birth to a female child who was born with club feet.