Example sentences of "and the family " in BNC.

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1 And the family was never heard of again .
2 This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law .
3 The implications were spelt out in Article 41 , paragraphs 2 and 3 , which pledged the state to protect marriage and the family and forbade divorce .
4 A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) .
5 The genteel and pleasant routine of life which he understood , despite the lengthening shadow of his father 's illness , was convulsed in 1943 , when Nathan Cohen died , and the family was plunged into loss and grief .
6 Eventually the medical school will arrange the funeral , and the family can participate if they wish .
7 For further statistics , you may like to look in your library at recent editions of SOCIAL TRENDS , the GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY , SOCIAL SECURITY STATISTICS and the FAMILY EXPENDITURE SURVEY .
8 The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’
9 Help is at hand in the more constructive approach of the Glover Report on Fertility and the Family , compiled for the European Commission and now published by Fourth Estate .
10 His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed .
11 These are the relationships existing between people engaged in the process of production , ‘ the relations of production ’ , property and the family .
12 The third example of the rhetorical use of anthropology by Marx and Engels concerns a topic linked to relations of production and the family : the nature of property .
13 In the notebooks , Marx explains the difference in nature between the descent group , ( the gens ) and the family .
14 The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown .
15 First let us consider the issue of marriage and the family .
16 Marriage and the family were therefore not unquestionable institutions , independent of history and society , they were linked to the economic system , to the political system , to the class system .
17 This therefore means that when the social system changes so will the nature of marriage and the family .
18 An implication , of course , is not only that marriage and the family have taken a great variety of forms , but that when political and economic conditions change in the future they will continue to change .
19 Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking .
20 Furthermore , Engels argues , marriage and the family — these ideas which Victorians thought of as peculiarly linked with private life and as having nothing to do with political and economic life — are in reality intimately associated with it .
21 The long history of marriage and the family we are given in The Origin if first and foremost to show that the family and marriage do have a history .
22 Engels 's general argument concerning marriage and the family applies to his discussion of the status of women , and again his position seems very much in advance of his time .
23 Sue now lives in Putney in a Victorian house , and the family also has a cottage in Oxfordshire .
24 But last year my son-in-law changed jobs and the family went to live in Holland .
25 One touch of a button and the family wash comes out whiter than white .
26 The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible .
27 She finished her supper of pork and sauerkraut then , as she had a coffee , Herr Nordern joined her and the family and had coffee himself .
28 How are you , and the family ? ’
29 But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it .
30 Save the Children works all over the country to help children and their families overcome the effects of high unemployment , inadequate housing lack of community services , language difficulties and the family tensions that can follow .
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