Example sentences of "a single parent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being such an advocate of the family , it strikes a sad note , in his biography , that Lord Joseph 's own four children are unmentioned , or that , after 30 years of marriage , he separated from his wife to become , in effect , a single parent himself . |
| 2 | When my own daughter was born I was a single parent , and had to work to pay the bills , so I missed the best years of her childhood . |
| 3 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 4 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 5 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 6 | If you 're a single parent and sick of being written about as a problem , rather than written for as a reader , One Parent Plus ( Jane Ward , Optima , £4.99 ) should be a refreshing change . |
| 7 | In a few cases , the social worker might have to make provision for young children to be given temporary care away from home , for instance if the patient is a single parent without any relatives who could care for the children . |
| 8 | More than one child in three is born into a single parent family . |
| 9 | Twenty-four-year-old Alicia Smith , a single parent who lives at Foxglove Drive , had spent the evening with relatives in Four Marks after attending a funeral in the Slough area . |
| 10 | Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter . |
| 11 | Feelings of inequality : being female , black , divorced , a single parent , dissatisfied with appearance , physical/ mental handicap , etc . |
| 12 | Ahmed is a single parent with two children under five . |
| 13 | Later we explained about the difficulties of being a single parent ; of financial strain , of the unsatisfactory life for a young child of being in a day-nursery from early morning till evening , and returning with an exhausted and lonely mother to a one-roomed flat . |
| 14 | At Kew , a large greenhouse , with temperature and humidity controlled at tropical rainforest levels throughout the year , contains a collection of several hundred clones of cocoa ( clones being groups of genetically identical individuals that have been derived from a single parent by asexual reproduction ) . |
| 15 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 16 | But it 's tricky if you 're a single parent — is n't that a ghastly expression ? |
| 17 | Clockwise from above : Tatiana is a single parent ; Irina , a surgeon , at work ; Tamara , 70 , is grateful to communism . |
| 18 | But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent . |
| 19 | One in five families with children are now being cared for by a single parent — nearly all of them women — compared with one in 12 in 1972 . |
| 20 | No woman in her right mind would choose to be a single parent and the tiny minority who set out to be are , in my view , incredibly selfish , unimaginative and cruel . |
| 21 | Often it is the mother from a single parent family , ’ says Oliver . |
| 22 | In 1982 ( as a single parent ) I started medicine . |
| 23 | A single parent living with her four children on this Sunderland estate had kept a large bedroom window covered with plastic sheeting for nearly a year ; the council had n't fixed it and she did n't have the wherewithal to do it herself . |
| 24 | A single parent living with her parents gets supplementary benefit of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 25 | In Sunderland a single parent in her late teens told me . |
| 26 | " If I was full time , I 'd be taking home £40 a week , " said a Sheffield hotel worker who is also a single parent . |
| 27 | A woman I talked to , a single parent , gets up at 4.30 a.m. every morning . |
| 28 | I went home to the woman I 'm staying with , a single parent with three children aged between two and nine years . |
| 29 | As can be seen from table 6.6 , the proportion of all families with dependent children which are headed by a single parent increased from just over 8 per cent in 1971 to just under 12 per cent in 1981 . |
| 30 | Instead of a sliding scale to determine what income a single parent in work can keep without losing benefit , a standard £15 cut-off point has been introduced . |