1.   Burns used his family connections to good advantage.

2.   Charles was able to use his family connection for his own personal advancement.

3.   Much effort went into tracing remote family connections abroad on the off chance of identifying a benefactor.

4.   The family connections that some historians have reconstructed, and alleged to explain the rise of both men, are curiously neglected by contemporary sources.

5.   Her ties will remain strong as she still has many family connections.

6.   My contact in Berlin is Suzanne, and her family connections cross with mine in Sweden.

7.   I knew of no previous family connection with this place, but the information was sufficient to prompt a search of the Thornhill registers.

8.   Robert Chichele came from Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire where his father was a burgess, although he had a family connection with London through his mother.

9.   It was also a profession, or quasi-profession, in which family connections, sometimes verging on downright nepotism, counted for much.

10.   Another important ingredient to the Arkells brew is the family connection.