Example sentences of "as a family [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 2 | But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph . |
| 3 | A COFFIN containing the body of a father-of-five was set ablaze in a garden yesterday as a family feud raged out of control . |
| 4 | When Henry became Louis 's vassal for Aquitaine in 1259 , there was every sign that what Louis clearly regarded as a family quarrel had been resolved — at least among its leading protagonists . |
| 5 | And after a week , when the football ground had acted as a family home visited by friends from near and afar in what was a traditional wake , the flowers which had been laid were ritually burned . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , Mum , ’ he said , ‘ I can just about stand Christmas dinner as a family get-together . |
| 7 | So , with the exception of the boy Matthew , who was marked with the same ruthless stamp as himself , he grudgingly tolerated the ‘ intruders ’ brought under his roof , and whom he had come to resent beyond reason ; perhaps because he saw in them his own failure as a family man . |
| 8 | As a family man , he might have other priorities in his life now but his great motivation is to prove he 's been prematurely written off . |
| 9 | Here Hincmar touched on the nature of medieval royal government as a family firm . |
| 10 | Continuity is idealized as a family relationship and is symbolized in terms such as parent company or child subcontractor . |
| 11 | ‘ As a family run business we like to maintain a friendly atmosphere and we even offer our customers some refreshment on arrival . |
| 12 | Something I should have mentioned earlier is just how good gold prospecting is as a family hobby . |
| 13 | In Sterne 's Shandy Hall the similarity of its servants Obadiah and Susannah to the rest of that eccentric household might almost be described as a family likeness . |
| 14 | In the normal legend they represent what is known as a family romance . |
| 15 | New people entering into the occult are reassured that ouija is a genuine part of the occult , despite its being hijacked as a family board game by Waddingtons House of Games . |
| 16 | With 27 branches nationwide , Beaverbrooks has retained its outstanding reputation for fine quality jewellery and is still run as a family concern , with customer satisfaction the most important guiding principle . |
| 17 | Term used for a multiple prayer rug — one with two or more separate prayer fields — which is also referred to as a family prayer rug ( p. 86 ) . |
| 18 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 19 | As a family holiday destination , Bournemouth is without equal . |
| 20 | They enjoy their status as a family company and intend to retain it . |
| 21 | Again the problem will arise that it will be unlikely that a company will satisfy the text to qualify as a family company . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The use of ‘ Treharne Thomas ’ as a family name was preserved in the Pontardulais cousins with whom Edward spent his Oxford long vacations . |
| 24 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 25 | As a family Queen 's Park Baptist Church means a lot to us , and it is good to be going into this task with such a strong church behind us . |
| 26 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 27 | He had found that the Ford Granada Estate which he had bought second-hand in September for £4,000 was being used exclusively for collecting and delivering goods for Transom Trading and not as a family car as originally intended . |
| 28 | Peter gave the shrug that Coffin began to recognize as a family gesture . |
| 29 | Gay conjures up a nightmarish world , in which ‘ thief-takers ’ inform on fellow criminals for the £40 reward , marriage for love is regarded as a family disgrace , and man is presented as an animal of prey . |
| 30 | In the 1760s Sir James Lowther ( 1736–1802 ) owned large estates in the area and treated the industrial port of Whitehaven as a family investment . |