Example sentences of "from the [det] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 2 | Mandrake comes from the same family as the potato ( once thought to be endowed with aphrodisiac powers itself ) . |
| 3 | Eye-witnesses believe it could come from the same family of beasts as Ogopogo , Tazama and Pohengamok , who all dwelt in lakes throughout British Columbia . |
| 4 | From the same family as the Giraffe Cat , there is the African spotted catfish ( Parauchenoglanis sp . ) |
| 5 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 6 | All pairs are from the same family or superfamily and are roughly matched for size and relative tail length of males , but have otherwise been selected at random . |
| 7 | Would not a royal and priestly Messiah , both issuing simultaneously from the same family , have seemed an eloquent testimony of God 's favour ? |
| 8 | At some small homes children from the same family can be kept together , whereas fostering would entail splitting them up . |
| 9 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 10 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 11 | Here , a family of three died … last year four people from the same family died a few miles furtehr east . |
| 12 | A driver has been remanded on bail after three women from the same family were knocked down and killed on their way home from a funeral . |
| 13 | The inquests into the deaths of three women from the same family have been opened and adjourned . |
| 14 | One report puts the number of British children at three , all from the same family . |
| 15 | THE ROLL of a class in a Co Down primary school jumped by more than half in one go when four children from the same family — all born on the same day — arrived . |
| 16 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |