Example sentences of "[adv] a family [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very much a family event which in recent years has attracted more than 1,000 participants and at least as many spectators . |
| 2 | I 'm very much a family man and need to be close to those I love . ’ |
| 3 | Away from the office , Eddie is very much a family man . |
| 4 | Yet Thai business remains as much a family affair as ever . |
| 5 | Sabine had expected the civil ceremony conducted by the mayor to be a formal , rather bureaucratic business , but it was very much a family affair , celebrated among neighbours who had known the bride and groom since birth . |
| 6 | While the shop supplies all of the local wholefood stores and hotels , it remains very much a family concern . |
| 7 | The sharing of genetic coding is very much a family matter . |
| 8 | That it is still very much a family business is revealed by the manner in which staff refer to their chairman as Mr Sandy . |
| 9 | It was very much a family restaurant with children , teenagers and grandparents all eating together and was clearly somewhere to which the locals repaired for a weekend dinner . |
| 10 | Within most sample surveys of visitors , data on the size and composition of groups ( eg a family group of size 4 ) are collected . |
| 11 | William Green was basically a family man . |
| 12 | Perhaps a family member can help ? |
| 13 | A key or a lifeless deed or a cheap Roberts reproduction , perhaps a family snapshot or a tourist postcard of the 1930s , is the nearest that many Palestinian exiles can move in spirit towards the place they regard as their homeland . |
| 14 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 15 | Elena received a fee for permission to purchase what was by Romanian standards a luxurious limousine , even if in the West the car might have been only a family saloon . |
| 16 | Only a family member could be trusted to do this . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he replied , ‘ just a family quarrel . ’ |
| 18 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just a family tradition . |
| 20 | Yeah well they 're just a family business . |
| 21 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 22 | ‘ This is just a family robot . ’ |
| 23 | Meal-time is usually a family get-together , where the doings of the day are talked about . |
| 24 | All this needed rather bigger ships , and he committed the family heavily — the family rather than the company , for it was still a family concern — to a programme of replacement and new building . |
| 25 | Once a family contacts or is referred to the referral scheme coordinator every assistance is given to that family to link into their local community group to ensure that the group is physically suitable and that any special assistance needed to enable the child to attend the group and enjoy its activities is provided . |
| 26 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 27 | Hugh Lorimer had been her solicitor for years ; he was also a family friend . |
| 28 | The vicar conducting the service , who 's also a family friend , read out part of the coroner 's judgement . |
| 29 | But he was also a family butcher and he served the family did n't he ? |
| 30 | But physiology was also a family activity ; he had a laboratory at his spacious home in London . |