Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer is a slice of cake sufficient , party bags are a necessity and children weigh the success of failure of the occasion by what they take home . |
| 2 | Following his string of single and album hits in the '70s , a marriage and children , Steve let the '80s slip by . |
| 3 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
| 4 | Some people of this nature manage to sublimate their feeling in care and platonic affection for a child or children . |
| 5 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 6 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 7 | Even more strikingly , some working mothers regard a period at work , particularly if it is part-time , as a welcome respite from the great variety of stresses arising in looking after a home and children . |
| 8 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 9 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 10 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 11 | In the new society , we believe that a husband or children will not act as a limitation on women . |
| 12 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 13 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 14 | In a monogamous marriage there are many more claims on time and labour because there is only one woman to do all the work ; looking after a husband and children , tending crops , collecting water , firewood and preparing food . |
| 15 | If you 've got a spouse and children then the spouse is going to get household goods and personal effects , the ordinary everyday things in the house and the first seventy five thousand pounds . |
| 16 | He has a wife and children and most men do n't usually leave their wives , do they ? ’ |
| 17 | The testin' of a man is when he has the responsibility of a wife and children . ’ |
| 18 | While she had n't actually been demoted , she felt she had been moved sideways , possibly because word had drifted through to those in authority who controlled our movements that the American already had a wife and children in the States . |
| 19 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |
| 20 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 21 | One or two , accompanied by a wife and children , had seemed to regard the tournament as an opportunity for a free family holiday ; and some had even managed to miss the halfway cut , to the great embarrassment of all concerned , except probably Mike Martinez whose twenty-five per cent commission was safe whatever happened . |
| 22 | To have a wife and children |
| 23 | So , she would lose Patrick , first to medical school and then later to a practice — and she would ensure that it would be one of the finest in the city — and then she supposed there would be a wife and children … and the intensity of her sudden anger surprised her . |
| 24 | He was an old man with a wife and children , I thought . |
| 25 | Middle class legislators failed to confront the fact that large numbers of industrious working class men did not earn enough to keep a wife and children . |
| 26 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 27 | She did n't know if he wanted a wife and children , but she knew that , having set his hand to any task , he would carry it through to the end . |
| 28 | Radicals fully recognize the point of the common phrase , ‘ can afford to have a wife and children at home ’ . |
| 29 | I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind |
| 30 | You should also see a newsagent on your left , so anticipate a man crossing the road with his nose in a newspaper and children darting across with ice-creams or sweeties . ’ |