Example sentences of "with no children " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 2 | A woman with no children may well be regarded as a witch who must be ostracised and barred from celebrations . |
| 3 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
| 4 | Surveys of families receiving supplementary benefit have show that couples with children and lone parents are likely to have higher weekly credit commitments than people with no children or pensioners . |
| 5 | Any elderly crone , who happened to be ugly or misshapen enough to have repelled all potential husbands , and who was therefore forced to live a solitary life with no children of her own , often as an outcast on the edge of the village , was desperately in need of companionship . |
| 6 | General feeling of loss or unspecified community effect : people would miss the school , the school is an asset to the community , it would be sad with no children around , etc . |
| 7 | With no children , two bedrooms was a privilege . |
| 8 | A longitudinal sample of 1084 couples who divorced in 1979 found that one-third of both husbands ( 34 per cent ) and wives ( 33 per cent ) had remarried within two and a half years , and that those with children were just as likely to remarry as those with no children ( Haskey , 1987 ; Bhrolcain , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | A leaf is a node with no children . |
| 10 | As I am unmarried , with no children , and fairly wealthy , I would like her to come to Madeira to live with me , and to inherit all my property when I die . |
| 11 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 12 | During 1931 my mother , who was then fifty-one , married Reggie Astley , a widower with no children who was considerably older than her . |
| 13 | The second largest proportion comprise married couples with no children , then married couples with independent children . |
| 14 | ‘ You could be widowed young , and with no children or grandchildren to fill those lonely years . ’ |