Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays my grandchildren come here for the same family festival . |
| 2 | In April 1987 supplementary benefit for the same family equalled 43 per cent of average earnings , and in April 1988 the level of income support available to this family amounted to only 37.3 per cent of earnings . |
| 3 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 4 | Pringle and Laverty are apparently unaware of the many family health services authorities that have set up approval procedures for employing counsellors in primary care . |
| 5 | Different horses communicate in different ways , although those that live together or are of the same family are more likely to communicate in the same way . |
| 6 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 7 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 8 | Also facing the green at the entrance to the church is the old forge , worked by many generations of the same family of blacksmiths till the 1970s when it was converted to a bus shelter . |
| 9 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 10 | Although a close-knit group and members of the same family , no two are alike , each posing its own problems of route finding , its own hazards ; only in the excellence of their views are they akin . |
| 11 | This is the first time that such a show has been organised in Bavaria and reflects the interest of its creator , Prinz Georg von Hohenzollern , who is Generaldirektor of the Bavarian Staatliche Gemäldesammlungen and of the same family as Frederick the Great . |
| 12 | This comes from the study by Goldthorpe , Llewellyn and Payne ( 1980 , pp. 152–6 ) on patterns of social mobility for men , as measured by a comparison of the occupational status of different generations of the same family . |
| 13 | Very commonly two or more men shared a single assessment , mostly members of the same family , though the occasional bracketing of different surnames suggests cousins or , rather , in-laws — the husbands of co-heiresses who were commonplace among landowners locally ; and maybe business partnerships of the kind often formed by miners to save expenses . |
| 14 | Players with the same name on either side is comparatively common , especially in domestic cricket where two members of the same family may play for different teams , but two players on each side sharing surnames in a Test is one of those statistics whose arrival is well overdue . |
| 15 | Three generations of the same family set for the London Marathon : Andy Andrews , Andy Fearn and Daniel Fearn |
| 16 | Thirdly , while members of the same family are held to share identical degrees of status , privilege , power and wealth , simply by virtue of their common membership of this unit , differences of role , position and status within the family are not themselves considered to be criteria of stratification . |
| 17 | Still owned by Franca Vivani della Robbia , the villa is now managed by Signora Caterina Buonamici of the same family . |
| 18 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 19 | In consequence , the Royal Messiah and the Priest Messiah would have had to be as closely linked as possible — which they were in Maccabean times , for example , when both were members of the same family . |
| 20 | This title often passed to successive members of the same family , creating military dynasties . |
| 21 | In the hands of the same family since the 15th century , the castle now houses an art gallery with a fine collection of Graham Sutherland paintings . |
| 22 | Alternanthera lilicana ( former Thelanthera lilicana ) is a very attractive , red-leaved stem plant of the same family , but is far more demanding in respect of light , iron and carbon dioxide . |
| 23 | As they are all of the same family , could I breed from an Oranda and a Blue Carp ? |
| 24 | Hollyhocks are a member of the same family as marshmallow , which has the same large , open saucer-shaped flowers without stems . |
| 25 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 26 | I am very pleased to be part of the same family and to know that my parents feel the same . |
| 27 | We show here that another member of the same family , namely C/EBPδ ( also called NF-IL6β , CELF , CRP3 ) ( 26–29 ) , is activated by IL-6 . |
| 28 | Members of the same family tend to resemble each other ; if one were warningly coloured , many others would be as well . |
| 29 | Indeed , it would seem that members of the same family who quarrel in the garden may be guilty of the offence . |
| 30 | ‘ I came , sir , to tell you we are of the same family as you . ’ |