Example sentences of "family had [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 2 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | The only communication between him and his family had been letters smuggled out . |
| 5 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 6 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |