Example sentences of "the family [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was more concerned to get her last report on Michael Morrissey who , now he told her , had a grown brother in the IRA and so , as the Head put it , the family had been made unwelcome in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 3 | But the family had been comfortably off , and she was able to hire hands to run the farm . |
| 4 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 5 | The family had been relieved of the embarrassment of a huge , unmanageable Georgian house by a convenient fire in the twenties . |
| 6 | Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had married one of their daughters ; another member of the family had been William IX 's most famous mistress . |
| 7 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 8 | The family had been settled in the west of Ireland from the early thirteenth century and on the death of his father in 1808 Ulick John de Burgh inherited , in addition to the earldom , 56,000 acres in county Galway . |
| 9 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | One member of the family had been quite enough . |
| 11 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 12 | Of course he had been warned ; the family had been warned , but … |
| 13 | The family had been preparing for months . |
| 14 | Two days earlier the family had been told that tests at Darlington Memorial Hospital confirmed Mr Watson was terminally ill . |
| 15 | MP David Alton said the family had been treated monstrously . |
| 16 | The family had been odd she remembered ; their accent was more up market , and they had formal , stiff manners , unlike the relaxed style and broad accents of the Glaswegian neighbourhood . |
| 17 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 18 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 19 | Everything the family built was easily rented and money was plentiful . |