Example sentences of "[vb past] from [adj] families " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the British steelmasters in 1865,89 per cent came from middle-class families , 7 per cent from the lower middle class ( including small shopkeepers , independent artisans , etc. ) and a mere 4 per cent from workers , skilled or — more improbably — unskilled . |
| 2 | After all , her young people all came from good families . |
| 3 | there were plenty of spirited women really , you know , a man came from monied families who did n't er , just go off er , you know |
| 4 | The successful working-class children — that is , those who stayed the full seven-year course to Higher School Certificate or A levels — usually came from small families and often lived near to a primary school serving a predominantly middle-class area . |
| 5 | Parents of teenage mothers usually married young themselves , had primary education only , were mostly in manual occupations , and came from large families . |
| 6 | He explained the detailed attention which was paid to the background of a child appearing before the Panel and pointed out that it was often revealed that the children concerned came from large families , which were poor and in which there was an absence of adult male guidance . |
| 7 | When I was a youngster much charitable giving came from wealthy families . |
| 8 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 9 | Many came from academic families , and most were employed in prestigious women 's colleges on the East Coast of the US ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 10 | In addition a doctor mentioned the advantage of his privileged background and several people indicated that they came from medical families . |