Example sentences of "[prep] a large family " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 32 | William Beveridge showed more appreciation of the problems posed by the burden of women 's household tasks when he stated that the ‘ housewife 's job , with a large family is frankly impossible and will remain so unless some of what has now to be done separately in every home can be done economically outside the home ’ ( although he never failed to assume that the final responsibility for domestic work rested with women ) . |
| 33 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |
| 34 | In the Corfe Castle listing of 1794 , one of the relief recipients , in his seventies and with a large family from a younger wife , is described as a labourer , but a marginal note informs us that he had once been a farmer and overseer of the poor . |
| 35 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 36 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 37 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 38 | She would dearly love some daughters to be able to pass her jewellery on to and , coming from a large family , she enjoys the atmosphere that plenty of children create . |
| 39 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 40 | ‘ Do you come from a large family , Maura ? ’ |
| 41 | George comes from a large family and the home situation is acknowledged by his parents to be stressful because of overcrowding and financial difficulties . |
| 42 | The pattern of kinship relationships extends to other women in the working-class half of the sample , particularly to those who come from a large family . |
| 43 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 44 | McGeechan senior came from a large family ; Ian 's mother was an only child . |
| 45 | I mean it was only Margaret 's sister , you see Margaret came from a large family , so there was always |
| 46 | They grew up loved and cherished in a large family with three older sisters . |
| 47 | My father , the one scholar in a large family , had caught the eye of the village schoolmaster and been coached by oil-lamp in the evening for an examination offering access to that rare privilege for the children of the poor , a secondary-school education . |
| 48 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 49 | Other than the main living-room — with its round table and chairs in one corner , clearly doubling as a dining-room — it also contained two bedrooms , separated by a large family bathroom . |