Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] family " in BNC.

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1 Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings .
2 These should protect citizens from the homelessness , poverty , bad housing , unemployment , religious racial and sexual discrimination , physical and mental disability and ill health and the need to care for dependent members of the family which prevent citizens from participating in society .
3 I 'm not a proper member of the family ! ’
4 It was clear that the supporters of the scheme were concerned with the status of mothers and children just as the early members of the Family Endowment Society had been .
5 It may prove helpful to view the figure ( ignoring arrows ) as a family tree in which the nodes correspond to male members of a family and node 1 is a patriarch .
6 As a result , many of the peasantry maintain a subsistence plot but , since this is usually insufficient to support a family , the male members of the family have to seek seasonal labouring work , leaving the women to maintain the family farm .
7 Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions .
8 The child is also subject to the authority of the joint family system , which puts the making of decisions in the hands of one or two senior male members of the family .
9 His reward was that he was the only male member of the family who was not obliged to form part of the firing squad .
10 The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ .
11 The remaining member of the family was her big sister , Laura , who was married and living in Glasgow .
12 Ruth and Naomi , they 'd lost all their possessions and the most prominent member of the family was a man called Boaz
13 If the imbecilic members of the family can find no useful occupation , and Church of England still refuses to have them , then we find most of them dressing up curious uniforms , indulging in unspecified sado masochistic rituals , salutin' and marchin' .
14 The primary task of the counselling process within families is to focus upon the different viewpoints of key members of the family group , how they differ from each other , and why stress in family relationships has developed .
15 And the team must always include the disabled person in question , besides key members of the family and friends .
16 Available as both a network feeder and network node — and compatible with the existing members of the family — the 10K enables customers to build networks supporting thousands of users in up to 250 locations , the company says .
17 However in Britain , with most adult members of the family earning a wage and with working life being separate from family life , hierarchy becomes a very weak concept .
18 On the other hand , we have been reminded by modern research , notably that of Lily Pincus , that to pass over death in silence and offer no explanation of the disappearance of a well-loved member of the family can cause psychological damage that plagues a child when grown up .
19 One of Leila Berg 's grandchildren , Martha , at the age of eighteen months had a speaking vocabulary of 258 words ( Berg , 1977 , pp.26–9 ) and no doubt a more extensive hearing vocabulary since she was a full member of the family ’ s conversation group and stories were part of her life .
20 The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family .
21 The law relating to family settlements was therefore concerned with the ways in which limited interests could be created in favour of various members of the family , stretching out as far as possible into the future .
22 The company carried on at Brookhouse , under various members of the family .
23 Other ways of making life more interesting for the housebound are the occasional holidays in the homes of various members of the family ; also offering to help them to entertain their friends in their own home to more than just a cup of tea , by arranging to take a pre-cooked , easily served meal round to them beforehand .
24 After asking about various members of the family , Tamar eyed Elizabeth .
25 This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse .
26 That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’
27 Her son and the immediate members of the family will be called upon to help and support her throughout her life .
28 His brother , the only member of the family to escape death , was off fetching materials but returned while we talked .
29 Perhaps the only member of the family who at times showed resentment was Sam , the next in line .
30 Although S. marmoratus is the only member of the family from the Americas , there are two others , S. afer of Africa and S. bengalensis from Southeast Asia and parts of Australia .
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