Example sentences of "to teach a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He observed St-Germain-des Pres from a little distance , was distressed by its tendency towards abstraction , took his new mistress Francoise Gilot from its fringes , and so thought to teach a lesson in painting to both her and her contemporaries . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen ’ , he said , as though trying to teach a child some simple truth . |
| 3 | The story is thus used to teach a child to respond like the wise old tortoise when the cue word ‘ turtle ’ is given . |
| 4 | One of the crucial decisions , now , is whether to teach a subject discretely , or to integrate . |
| 5 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 6 | ‘ But your housekeeper will stay on , ’ Dertouzos said , ‘ because no-one knows how to teach a robot to plan . |
| 7 | How have we come to teach a paddle stroke which is different from the real stroke , which produces a higher risk of injury ? |
| 8 | It may be valid to teach a stroke such as a bow rudder to a recreational paddler but even on the same paddle stroke the arm and paddle positions used by slalomists and WW tourists are very different . |
| 9 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 10 | One might ( perhaps ) be able to teach a dolphin to peel a banana , but only if it was incorporated into a sequence of actions required to achieve some goal considered meaningful to the mind of the dolphin — food , affection , play or whatever ! |
| 11 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Thus we might wish to teach a particular structure or word meaning not on the grounds of frequency of occurrence but because its acquisition provides a basis for the learner to understand and learn other structures or meanings by extension . |
| 13 | But the main problem is that it is far more difficult to teach a new spoken dialect because so many aspects of spoken production are automatic and below the level of conscious control . |
| 14 | To teach a set of specific techniques . |
| 15 | To teach a list of ten steps to setting up a programme of intervention . |
| 16 | To teach a set of specific techniques . |
| 17 | To teach a set of specific-techniques |
| 18 | If people did not naturally groan , grimace , or whatever , ‘ then it would be impossible to teach a child the use of the word ‘ tooth-ache ’ ’ . |
| 19 | In fact , according to Brown it is virtually impossible to teach a language ; what one can hope to do is to provide a situation where the complex variables which contribute are maximised . |
| 20 | Toy Box aims to teach a limited amount of basic vocabulary , such as greetings , colours , numbers , food , clothes , and toys . |
| 21 | No structured programme is necessary to teach a baby its mother tongue , to enable the child to master the complexities of sentence construction or grasp the subtle nuances and meanings conveyed in phrase and tone . |
| 22 | These priorities , for example , might be expressed through a request to teach a different age group or to be given time to take a specific course . |
| 23 | Huis ten Bosch is an attempt to combine leisure with a wish to teach a greater respect for the relationship between nature and culture . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |
| 25 | He was appointed to teach a course titled " Post-studio Art " at the California Institute of Arts ( Cal Arts ) at Valencia , Los Angeles , in 1970 . |
| 26 | Anyone who has had to teach a mathematically based subject will know the difficulties which students encounter in negotiating a new level of abstraction . |
| 27 | Many tutor-librarians were also required , as a condition of appointment to teacher-scales , to teach a minimum number of hours in the Liberal Studies programme , and this often included the teaching of subjects not essentially part of the librarian 's speciality . |
| 28 | The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school . |
| 29 | The latter , supported by a petition signed by the Mayor , Francis Harpur , and 120 others , and by a statement from the Rector , Thomas Johnson , that he was " fit and able to teach a Grammar School " , was appointed by the Goldsmiths on 9th April 1651 . |
| 30 | But when we want to teach a democracy to er to er to a different er the countries of the east , when it 's it 's a big humbug I think you ca n't teach them |