Example sentences of "in [noun pl] of family [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time . |
| 2 | Finally , as industrial societies do not remain static — indeed some sociologists are already talking of a ‘ postindustrial ’ society — what further changes , if any , are we likely to see in patterns of family living or in the development of alternatives to what we usually understand as ‘ the family ’ ? |
| 3 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 4 | It was sustained by the isolation of the rural village , by the strong kinship links between the village inhabitants and by the need for cooperation in times of family crisis . |
| 5 | Since these factors can and do change , the position of the younger generation in structures of family support must be seen as specific to particular points in historical time . |
| 6 | Evidence from the middle of the nineteenth century , in Anderson 's study of Preston , indicates that older people were involved in structures of family support very much on a reciprocal basis . |
| 7 | His new home was only about 5 miles away from Shelley , but in terms of family history his decision to move was momentous . |
| 8 | In such cases , support and counselling for the parents and child will help in managing the situation or minimising its effect ; it may take hard work and not a little courage to help a resisting parent to recognise his or her element of incestuous involvement , but such a course can pay dividends in terms of family stability . |
| 9 | The world of Fisher Row — and no doubt of other occupational groups in early-modern times — was one that thought in terms of family duties and privileges , of family alliances and of inheritance through the family . |
| 10 | The menstrual taboo , originally presented and applied with explicit reference to maintaining the purity of the Temple and its cultic participants , was in the first century AD recast in terms of family law and the purity of marriage within the domestic unit . |
| 11 | But in terms of family income the growth in the number of two-earner couples means that the gap in the incomes and living standards between lone mothers and other families with children has become wider . |
| 12 | Klein s work rests upon a moral and normative order which can either , as in the work of other object-relations theorists , become associated with a particular status quo in terms of family structure and roles , or else , if rechannelled , be used for a radical critique of these same institutions ( e.g. Frosh 1987 ) . |
| 13 | It opened the floodgates to a deluge of referrals , altered the whole balance of its work and confronted it with the enormity of ‘ need ’ in terms of family poverty and homelessness . |
| 14 | In terms of family responsibilities , the various changes I have identified have combined to produce a phase of life in later adulthood when people are free from direct responsibility for rearing children . |
| 15 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 16 | The outcome is that the complexity of organization is ordered and made familiar in experience ; the reality of differences in authority , power , and status can be explained away ‘ in the mind ’ in terms of family roles — father , son , uncle , cousin . |
| 17 | Tending takes place in a wide variety of households , characterised by different family structures and by widely different experiences in terms of family relationships and life patterns . |
| 18 | There are also bound to be variations with age , which in terms of family relationships is reflected in a person 's position in the structure of generations ( for a discussion of age and generation , see Finch , 1986a ) . |
| 19 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 20 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |