Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the same family " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Three generations of the same family set for the London Marathon : Andy Andrews , Andy Fearn and Daniel Fearn |
| 5 | Welcome back:Three generations of the same family have helped doctors make a pioneering discovery in the battle against diabetes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This title often passed to successive members of the same family , creating military dynasties . |
| 13 | Members of the same family tend to resemble each other ; if one were warningly coloured , many others would be as well . |
| 14 | Indeed , it would seem that members of the same family who quarrel in the garden may be guilty of the offence . |
| 15 | A car bomb in Bilbao on Jan. 8 injured a woman and her daughter ; two other members of the same family , which was apparently involved in drug trafficking , had been killed by an ETA car bomb in 1989 . |
| 16 | Further studies need to be carried out to determine whether the finding of similar strains of H pylori in different members of the same family is a frequent occurrence . |
| 17 | Three members of the same family have been killed , and two others injured in a collision between an articulated lorry and two cars . |
| 18 | Three members of the same family have been found murdered in Oxford . |
| 19 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 20 | THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road . |
| 21 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 22 | The girls of the same families included in the formation by these direct relationships shared the same interests but were , in majority , beyond the immediate formative system . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A reduction is made in respect of the third and successive pupils of the same family . |
| 25 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 26 | The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family . |