Example sentences of "have a [adj] family [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary has a close family interest in the building as two of her daughters and a grand daughter work there . |
| 2 | By the early twentieth century , it was not unusual for the library to be a masculine combination of gun room , study and smoking room , and the Dolls ' House library has a cluttered family atmosphere , scattered as it is with periodicals , newspapers , cards and dice . |
| 3 | It has a special family unit where whole families can be admitted . |
| 4 | Kylie told the magazine reporter : ‘ I 've had a great family life and have n't had the sort of problems she encountered . |
| 5 | Gabriel herself had not had a happy family life , but a merciful providence , as she now saw it , had orphaned her early . |
| 6 | We thought we 'd have a nice family evening in front of the television . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They will just be having a normal family Christmas , all of them together . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll be having a quiet family supper at around seven o'clock , and you 'll be able to tuck the twins up in bed after that , OK ? ’ she added , brushing away their thanks as she bustled off towards the large ranch house . |
| 9 | Britain does not have an explicit family policy . |
| 10 | Although social isolation is undoubtedly a problem for many old people , many more do have an active family life . |
| 11 | A relatives group may wish to share feelings about having an elderly family member admitted to a home , and explore their ongoing levels of involvement . |
| 12 | ‘ We were going to have a nice family Christmas . |
| 13 | Women not admitted were markedly more likely to have a male family member consulted . |
| 14 | In November 1962 a series of three special evening services was planned on the theme of ‘ How to have a happy family life ’ and the preachers on successive Sunday evenings were , then headmaster of Methodist College , Belfast . |
| 15 | We intend again this year to have a large Family Christmas Card to enable you to send greetings to other members of the fellowship . |
| 16 | Teenage mothers are more likely than older mothers to have an unstable family background , to have poor or no educational qualifications , and to be unemployed at the time of conception ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | She had a confusing family background , as many children did in those days . |
| 18 | Run by headmistress Jean Lowe , who gave evidence on Lord Althorp 's behalf during the divorce case , it had a real family atmosphere . |
| 19 | Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ? |
| 20 | He had a bizarre family resemblance to Picasso ; saurian as well as simian , decades of living in the sun , the quintessential Mediterranean man , who had discarded everything that lay between him and his vitality . |
| 21 | We had a big family conference tonight about Our Giving . |
| 22 | Thus , women of between 20 and 24 marrying in 1900 had an average family size of 4.0 children , while by 1950 the figure had dropped to 2.3 . |
| 23 | ‘ In the 1840s and 1850s , ’ says Robyn , ‘ a number of novels were published in England which have a certain family resemblance . |
| 24 | They work hard ; they have a strong family sense and a keen appreciation of education . |
| 25 | Add to those characteristics the meticulous almost fussy ways which Anthony has picked up from his father , and you have a close family likeness — yet to Anthony they are almost completely unacknowledged and unrecognised . |
| 26 | I am anxious to make sure they have a good family background and a stable growing-up period . ’ |
| 27 | Tina Bowler and Tony Kerr have a happy family life , but at a price . |
| 28 | I tend to lead a sort of idiotic existence of trying to get involved in too many things and dashing about ; and this is going to be my problem — trying to sort of control myself and work out something so that we have a proper family life . |