Example sentences of "[noun] who [vb base] migrated to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also the custom of certain groups who have migrated to Britain to pool resources between kin , either between people living in the same household or sometimes across households ( Anwar , 1985 , pp. 52–5 ; Brah , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 3 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 4 | There is substantial evidence that people who have migrated to Britain quite commonly send sums of money on a regular basis to assist relatives still living in their country of origin . |
| 5 | The same pattern certainly is found among people who have migrated to Britain from overseas since the end of the Second World War . |
| 6 | However , these too have drawbacks , notably the lack of children in the electoral register , and the difficulty of tracing migrants who have migrated to either new doctors ( Devis , 1984 ) or to new electoral districts , but nonetheless they can still pick out new trends , like the repopulation of rural areas , long before the decennial census can ( Kennett and Spence , 1979 ) . |