Example sentences of "family [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering that poor families ought to spend about 80–90 per cent of their income on food , rising fuel prices mean that they must be eating less . |
| 2 | Professional blacks families may benefit most . |
| 3 | In cases where a child is born out of wedlock , these families may struggle with their conception of what a normal family should be and various moral issues . |
| 4 | There will be a demand for more second homes in the countryside , and some families may reverse the process altogether by moving to the country and keeping a town pad for use while at work . |
| 5 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 6 | The age span 65–100 is such that some families may have two generations in retirement , with young-old people as carers of very old parents . |
| 7 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 8 | In modernity , Bourdieu 's individuals and families may have strategies , but his social ‘ classes ’ and ‘ groups ’ wage struggles . |
| 9 | Monolingual families may seem all alike ( see Chapter 7 for a refutation of this ! ) , but multilingual families are each multilingual after their own fashion . |
| 10 | Once within the council sector , tenants may find their circumstances changing : families may increase or decrease and places of work or school attendance may change , so that many tenants apply to transfer accommodation . |
| 11 | Young people previously in care and those estranged from their families may fall into this category . |
| 12 | Families may require adjoining or adjacent rooms . |
| 13 | It emphasizes that black and ethnic minority children and their families may need particular support from the health service as they are likely to share child rearing problems such as lack of play space , damp and over-crowded housing with other socially disadvantaged groups . |
| 14 | Again , low-income local families may need council houses but the in-migrant middle class may oppose all new developments , having obtained their own foothold in the village . |
| 15 | Reciprocally , such families may receive financial remittances from their migrating members once they have established themselves , and those left behind may derive prestige in their local community from the successes of their sons in the cities or the new countries . |
| 16 | When changes made to the scheme in 1990 are fully phased in , families may get more than $2,000 a year . |
| 17 | Families may become dependent for their living standards upon two incomes . |
| 18 | One parent families may come about because of death , divorce or separation in a two parent family or the ending of cohabitation or when a single woman has a baby on her own . |
| 19 | Marital breakdown often means that families must move — 58 per cent had done so in the Bradshaw and Millar survey . |
| 20 | ‘ Our nannies must be paid at least 200 dollars net a week , have two days off , their own room and the families must pay their air fare , ’ said Ms Gallagher . |
| 21 | Julius Ibbetson senior died in 1817 and although there is no mention of the Ibbetsons in between 1813–21 , the families must have still been in touch , although J. C. Ibbetson senior had moved to Yorkshire and he is buried at Masham . |
| 22 | Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 23 | The policy question is how far families should bear the burden themselves and how far the state , through social security , or otherwise , should pay for the costs of disability ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 24 | Families should get on together , that was only right . |
| 25 | The consequence of this is that public services designed to develop the potential of children and to safeguard their health and welfare must aim for an approach which incorporates the concept of partnership at its core , and that the legal framework relating to intervention in families should recognise and encourage this sense of partnership . |
| 26 | Firstly , we are offering a family the diagnosis of a lethal untreatable disorder in an apparently healthy baby ; secondly , the protocol was designed so that we could modify practice in the light of experience ; and , thirdly , families should have choice at every stage from the initial screening test to a confirmed diagnosis . |
| 27 | Social work practice with these families should concentrate on constructing a framework of security from the matching stage onwards , and this must mean delegating the maximum degree of responsibility to the new family to do things their way which the law allows . |
| 28 | On the other hand , all but the very poorest families might hire servants . |
| 29 | You could remind existing members that membership is open to all those who support the aims of the Medau Society so their families might like to join to support their interest . |
| 30 | Some families might include five generations . |