Example sentences of "family [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything the family built was easily rented and money was plentiful . |
| 2 | Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland . |
| 3 | He was more concerned to get her last report on Michael Morrissey who , now he told her , had a grown brother in the IRA and so , as the Head put it , the family had been made unwelcome in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | His son Themba , who is studying at Liverpool University , said yesterday on the telephone that his family had been reliably informed that he and Mr Sisulu would be out this month . |
| 5 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 6 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 7 | The pairing family had been brought about , so Engels and Morgan believed , by women wishing for a little permanence in their domestic arrangements . |
| 8 | Once the royal family had been shown as human beings it was impossible to stop the media treating them as such . |
| 9 | The Batt family had been connected with the Club since 1907 when Tom Batt bought bonds . |
| 10 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 11 | I repeated the details of how so many of Green 's family had been murdered at Auschwitz . |
| 12 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 13 | Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ . |
| 14 | She never ceased to regret that her own family had been scattered while she was still so young , and when , in 1787 , the five Wordsworth children were briefly reunited , they returned constantly to a single theme . |
| 15 | At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister , a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries . |
| 16 | She was born about AD 460 , daughter and granddaughter of Roman and Byzantine emperors , whose family had been prominent in Roman politics for over 700 years . |
| 17 | But the family had been comfortably off , and she was able to hire hands to run the farm . |
| 18 | Her whole family had been involved with the tradition for generations : she had just ridden with her daughter in the procession in a decorated pony and trap ; her son-in-law was the new polemaster ; and her grandson was dancing round the maypole . |
| 19 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 20 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 21 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 22 | The family had been relieved of the embarrassment of a huge , unmanageable Georgian house by a convenient fire in the twenties . |
| 23 | His own family had been driven by starvation to emigrate to America . |
| 24 | His own family had been no exception . |
| 25 | Mellor 's wife Judith and son Freddie , eight , watched from a gallery as the ex-Minister said his family had been a tower of strength throughout the whole ‘ sorry mess . ’ |
| 26 | No one in her family had been the same since Anthony 's funeral . |
| 27 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 28 | Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had married one of their daughters ; another member of the family had been William IX 's most famous mistress . |
| 29 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 30 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |