Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 2 | She had a friend from finishing school , Maria , who came from a rich Hungarian family , and who had fled her country for Paris in 1956 , at the time of the Russian invasion . |
| 3 | The contractors were a rich aristocratic family of Attica , the Alkmaionidai , exiled for opposition to Peisistratos , and they evidently employed an Attic artist . |
| 4 | Descended from a devoutly religious family , he was mildly disapproving of Iran 's high society pleasure-seekers . |
| 5 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 6 | The second minister was the Reverend Caleb S Laird MA , born in 1851 into a noted Methodist family in Drumshanbo . |
| 7 | In contrasting the earnings during the French wars of a mill-employed Lancastrian family with those of a southern farm labourer 's family , we are perhaps dealing with extremes . |
| 8 | ‘ For a full-time working family paying income tax and national insurance contributions , and receiving income-related benefits , an extra £1 of gross earnings can lead to an increase in income tax of 25p , a 9p increase in national insurance contributions , a 46p reduction in family credit , and a 17p reduction in Housing Benefit — a total of 97p ’ ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 9 | Cressy , the waiflike wife , is a refugee from a strange Catholic family community dominated by a patriarchal grandfather who as an artist has something of Holman Hunt ( I fancy ) as well as of Eric Gill , who more immediately inspired him . |
| 10 | As Rossiter and Wicks ( 1982 , p. 63 ) explained : ‘ It includes all or many of the following characteristics : an elderly relative living with or near her family : a stable nuclear family and an able-bodied woman at home supported financially by her husband at work ’ . |
| 11 | Implicitly the notion of family care provided by daughters assumes a specific model of family life , most notably a stable nuclear family with a non-working female at home able to provide care . |
| 12 | Each village consists of a single house of a patrilineal extended family with 15–46 members . |
| 13 | In these raids there were no human casualties in any of the deaf centres , although a few deaf families were made homeless when their homes were hit . |
| 14 | There were a few catholic families but the majority and the consensus derived from presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 15 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 16 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 17 | It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing . |
| 18 | Now however she was standing , part of what might be described as a lively merry family scene , upon the landing , watching the descent of the divan bed from the second floor . |
| 19 | They seem to be a darned queer family . |
| 20 | The sixty people we have every night in the night shelter have no choice at all and nor to the five and a half thousand families on our housing waiting list . |
| 21 | Two and a half million families are being crippled by mounting debts according to an independent report just released . |
| 22 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 23 | A further 210 families have made appointments and a special helpline set up to deal with inquiries from worried parents has so far received 137 calls . |
| 24 | In Manchester itself there are a further 600 families . |
| 25 | Being of a so-called good family does n't mean much these days , and the sort of money required to keep things ticking over a few years back does n't get you anywhere now . |
| 26 | That a sufficient number of influential Scots initially entertained the idea of Mary 's marriage to Henry VIII 's son shows immediate awareness of the problem , and the preferred solution : marriage into a foreign royal house rather than into a Scottish aristocratic family . |
| 27 | , William ( fl. 1323–1349 ) , mason and architect , belonged to a distinguished architectural family of East Anglia , descended from tenants of the abbot of Ramsey at Wyke Fen in Well since the twelfth century ( A. B. Whittingham in Archaeological Journal , vol. cxxvii , pp. 285–9 ) . |
| 28 | Lady Norman , and then to her mother Lady Burke , is a charming old family house with plenty of space . |
| 29 | Moses was brought up in a high-ranking Egyptian family and then , later in life , led a lowly people , the Jews . |
| 30 | Their crown was peddled around Europe and now they have a German Royal family — including a quite absurd Queen who writes sentimental novels . |