Example sentences of "family [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For humanitarian reasons I thought the family ought to know . ’ |
| 2 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 3 | The ZNF gene family may consist of several hundred members in the human genome ( 8,9 ) , and includes examples which have been implicated in the control of cell growth and differentiation ( 10,11 ) . |
| 4 | Often the surviving parent becomes depressed , the family may break up and there may be social and economic privation ( Parkes , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | The old person may fear being cut off , and the family may feel they are abdicating responsibility , experiencing some guilt . |
| 6 | Moreover , the family may feel very guilty at having produced a handicapped child , over-anxious about the child 's future , worried about their feelings towards the child or the effect on other children in the family . |
| 7 | Father , we ask that Your will be done , both in the building plans and in the teaching programme of St Leonard 's so that the church family may grow in grace and knowledge of You . |
| 8 | Hence , societies ' encouragement of early marriage as a step towards achievement of a large family may hinder rather than aid attainment of family size goals . |
| 9 | The modern nuclear family may reflect the mobility which technology has brought . |
| 10 | I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but to frustration and disappointment . |
| 11 | Hodgskin fathered seven children , and the need to provide for his family may explain his failure to produce any major work after 1832 . |
| 12 | P&O Cruises Ltd — providing you have had three years service with the Group , you and eligible members of your immediate family may travel on cruise ships at special concessionary rates . |
| 13 | The family may choose to minimise differences and emphasise the need to attach and integrate the child within the family network , perhaps from the moment the child enters the family , as part of the love , warmth and attention which a young child needs and which is the hallmark of good parenting . |
| 14 | Some members of this family may possess dual molecular recognition properties — for the ligand bound by the protein and for a receptor cell to which the ligand is transported . |
| 15 | As frailty increases that kind of basic tending by the family may ease the terminal phase for everyone , practically and emotionally . |
| 16 | The position of the child in the family may affect the separating process . |
| 17 | If the person dies at home , the district nurse could be asked to complete last offices , or the family may wish to do so . |
| 18 | Any sort of stress such as moving house , illness or upset in the family may cause the child to take a temporary step backwards in behaviour . |
| 19 | The family may determine the time of marriage , and the husband , his parents or the wife 's parents or another person may make decisions that dictate the number and spacing of births . |
| 20 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 21 | In this group , the extended family may include some hundreds of people , while the time of greatest status for a male is that between puberty and parenthood . |
| 22 | Players with the same name on either side is comparatively common , especially in domestic cricket where two members of the same family may play for different teams , but two players on each side sharing surnames in a Test is one of those statistics whose arrival is well overdue . |
| 23 | Southern California is moving towards replacing petrol with methanol , and — an important first — limiting the number of cars a family may own ; even insisting on radial tyres because they produce less dust . |
| 24 | iv ) The mother in a nuclear family may come to play a pivotal role in all major expenditure decisions , especially if the husband relies upon her to manage the household budget . |
| 25 | The family 's solicitor , Peter Anderson , said he was waiting to hear if the MoD would deal with the matter , but added that the family may pursue a civil claim . |
| 26 | Thus a modern Inuit village family may live in a small settlement of insulated timber housing , spend part of their time working for wages in government or private company employ , hunt caribou or seals for meat , and tend traplines for extra money to buy consumer goods from the store or mail-order catalogue . |
| 27 | The family should be distinguished from the household , since a family may live in one or more households and a household may include one or more families . |
| 28 | The family may encourage independence , or they may stifle it ; the individual may rise to the challenge , but may equally be overcome with bitterness and despair . |
| 29 | Teenagers could test your patience and older members of the family may add to the problem , either by interfering or because of their own situations . |
| 30 | Members of the family may help in the shop ( without wages ) |