Example sentences of "family [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brandmakers , whose Addams Family board game , based on the hit film , is heading for top toy shops ' shelves , is facing a financial crisis . |
| 2 | Beginner 's or Family Board |
| 3 | New people entering into the occult are reassured that ouija is a genuine part of the occult , despite its being hijacked as a family board game by Waddingtons House of Games . |
| 4 | ‘ I am stranded on the family estates , in Kent . |
| 5 | Louthesk and Ludburgh wapentakes formed a rather poor district ; even the most affluent resident , who was taxed on £60 a year and whose family estates were worth double , owned personal estate of only £43 , more than half of which comprised a none-too-prosperous farm ; whether he was unlucky or incompetent , no one outside the thriving little market town Louth was doing much better . |
| 6 | Beaumont meanwhile , despairing of any settlement by diplomatic means , began to seek support amongst those disinherited lords whose claims Bruce had ignored in 1328 , and he brought to England Edward Balliol , whose father had lost not only his kingdom but also his family estates in both Scotland and England . |
| 7 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 8 | In the years which followed Lowther increased the family estates through land purchase , and invested heavily in developing collieries in west Cumberland . |
| 9 | He was educated privately and at Columbia Law School , and worked as a lawyer and in the family estates before entering the New York State Assembly as a Republican in 1877 . |
| 10 | It is also worth noting , however , that Gregory 's family was closely associated with Dijon , and that he may well have relished the prospect of a major cult close to his family estates . |
| 11 | She was smiling , pouting , pulling faces , striking poses like someone not knowing what to do in front of a family cine camera … |
| 12 | Other non-pecuniary interests may disqualify a judge from acting , for example : ( a ) family relationship-Metropolitan Properties v. Lannon ( C.A. , 1969 ) ; ( b ) business connection — R. v. Sussex Justices , ex p . |
| 13 | Our own Western family titles — ‘ sister ’ , ‘ aunt ’ , ‘ grandfather ’ — are quite inadequate in Chinese . |
| 14 | Neither of us ever forgot the Dutch family van Spud either , although they were charming . |
| 15 | The mere availability of a family male is reassuring , giving the ASWs and others assessing greater confidence that the woman can remain in the community . |
| 16 | Family assessment |
| 17 | The outcome is that Mark is placed voluntarily in Sheila 's mother 's care , 15 miles away , while a family assessment takes place . |
| 18 | A blazing row follows , which Sheila 's mother reports to the social worker , who in turn asks her to keep a written record of contacts between Sheila and Mark for the family assessment . |
| 19 | These will form the basis of a comprehensive family assessment procedure for use in research and practice . |
| 20 | The plan of the family part of the house ( Fig. 8c ) , from either point of view , remains symmetrical , although it has acquired a conservatory to one side , and a range of offices to the other . |
| 21 | The family luck , he thought , now I know you are one of us . |
| 22 | Before the Czech family camp ? |
| 23 | Offered for sale at a realistic price , it represents an ideal investment or family purchase . |
| 24 | But family purchase behaviour will also be subject to family influence ( or even interference ) over the choice and direction of the expenditure of any one individual . |
| 25 | 12 ) Describe and comment on family purchase behaviour and pattern . |
| 26 | The family dip came at the start of a nine-day summer cruise around the Ionian Sea . |
| 27 | If this is the case , what this points to is the construction of various family forms , both in ideological definition and in social practice . |
| 28 | Family forms |
| 29 | The means of their exclusion is identified in the colourful deviancy which is produced by their pathological family forms . |
| 30 | The critique of the pathological views of black family life that were so prevalent in Social Services during the late seventies and early eighties has led directly to an extraordinary idealization of black family forms . |