Example sentences of "[art] family unit " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a statistical rider which puts even greater emphasis on that sum : it does not matter whether the family unit is made up of two , three or four people — the £1,000 booking is near enough a constant — though what people spend when they get there is harder to establish . |
| 2 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 3 | Similarly , the concern for the pollution of and from bodily secretions on a practical level worked to promote the integrity and productivity ( in human terms ) of the family unit — a matter of prime importance for a group concerned for its very existence and reproduction — whilst on a symbolic level , the exiles , concentration upon the unity , purity and integrity of the physical body well reflected their larger concern for the threatened boundaries of the body politic . |
| 4 | A number made the comment that only a small part of the training was of direct use on the family unit . |
| 5 | Substitute care was seen as supporting parents as well as providing for children 's needs , and practical assistance as preserving the family unit . |
| 6 | The rating system was corrupt ; they said they were protecting the family unit and thus you got ‘ X ’ if you suck a tit and ‘ GP ’ if you cut it off with a sword . ’ |
| 7 | Research by the Family Policy Studies Centre has examined the relationships between government policies and the family unit , with particular reference to the social security system . |
| 8 | A dog 's defensive instinct is his need to protect himself and the other members of his pack , which in these days usually includes the family unit . |
| 9 | During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping , as it is for these highly protective swans ( opposite , bottom ) . |
| 10 | Both are only as successful as our ability to set aside our personal agenda in favour of the family unit . |
| 11 | July is the most likely month for major changes regarding the home itself and within the family unit . |
| 12 | The real problem is that of poverty and the break-up of the family unit . |
| 13 | However , whilst it is important to recognize this trend , we should not forget that the family unit still performs most of the caring functions for the majority of older people in modern society . |
| 14 | It is simply a matter of maintaining communication in the family unit . |
| 15 | To take this view is to diminish teaching , presenting it as a form of fact processing , ignoring in the process the holistic view of the child within the family unit . |
| 16 | In rural communities , pressures to conform to a fixed structure of normative obligations were strong , since most people 's livelihood depended upon remaining within the family unit . |
| 17 | ‘ Family time ’ , refers to the ways in which the individual timetables of members of a family group are woven together , to keep the family unit as a viable concern , or to maximize resources . |
| 18 | State intervention should therefore be directed to preserving , supporting and strengthening the family unit ; only in unusual and extreme situations should it be disrupted . |
| 19 | The major impact was the break up of the family unit . |
| 20 | These sorts of personality-type theories are difficult to separate from childhood influences , especially values and beliefs ( both espoused and practised ) within the family unit . |
| 21 | The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity , but the family unit has remained highly influential . |
| 22 | Construction and cultivation require cooperation within the family unit and within the community . |
| 23 | Firstly , Worsley argues that overgeneralizations about the breakdown of the family unit are not justified by evidence on kinship networks . |
| 24 | But , since the family unit is then not supported by its integration into a wider social network , family problems can not be so easily shared . |
| 25 | I mean , I think really that erm children benefit from stable relationships within the family unit . |
| 26 | Only 31 per cent of disabled adults under pensionable age are in paid employment and , for one-half of disabled adults under pensionable age , there are no earners in the family unit at all ( Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1988a ) . |
| 27 | There was , in the arrangements for depend ants and widows , inevitably built into the scheme certain assumptions about the male breadwinner and his relationship to the family unit , which have left a difficult legacy for attempts to balance the interests of men and women in our own age . |
| 28 | Initially ( Chapter 2 ) , I shall trace the progressive development of Nizan 's life and work between 1905 and 1939 by focusing on the three formative structural influences that shaped his existence : the family unit , the schooling system and the communist party . |
| 29 | In order to reveal the global significance of Nizan 's existence analysis will be organised around the three dominant structural influences in his life : the family unit , the schooling system and the communist party . |
| 30 | The bankruptcy of William Sinclair 's business around 1870 and his death in 1881 dissolved the family unit . |