Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [num ord] language " in BNC.

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1 In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess .
2 Residents in Scotland whose first language is not English may welcome the opportunity to be assessed in their native language as a useful first step prior to undertaking training delivered and assessed in English .
3 Your paper has reported the Commission for Racial Equality 's formal investigation into the assessment for special needs of children in Strathclyde whose first language is not English .
4 Applicants whose first language is not English should consult the section in this prospectus for overseas students ( see page 55 ) .
5 I 'm sure those people whose first language is Welsh — a language that has an unbroken oral history stretching back farther than any other currently spoken European language — or any language other than English , would agree that it does not feel ‘ more natural ’ to use their mother tongue — simply ‘ natural ’ , full stop .
6 Here are some sentences ( written by people whose first language is not English ) where we would not have used " the " : No movement in the British literary history before Aestheticism …
7 1.22 We have paid particular attention to the needs of those children whose first language is not English : these are discussed in paragraphs 2.7 to 2.12 and in chapter 10 .
8 Passionate debate is provoked by the problems of children whose first language is not English .
9 Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample .
10 Definitions of ‘ special needs ’ varied widely in the questionnaire responses — some defining it as children with disabilities , some including children with behavioural and emotional problems and some including children whose first language was not English .
11 It continues the work of the Bristol Language project , supervised by Dr Gordon Wells , and follows up the foreign language school-based progress of the children whose first language developmental data were gathered by the Bristol team in the early 1970s .
12 Pupils whose first language is not English
13 And the time is six sixteen and still to come , parents and teachers protest over plans to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English .
14 Hundreds of parents and teachers have lobbied Parliament to protest about the government 's plan to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English .
15 Change and complexity in the social security system can further disadvantage claimants whose first language is not English ( NACAB , 1991 ) .
16 It should be made clear to English-speaking pupils that classmates whose first language is Bengali or Cantonese , or any other of the scores of languages spoken by the school population … have languages quite as systematic and rule-governed as their own .
17 The book is designed to develop the professional communication skills in English needed by pilots and air traffic controllers whose first language is not English .
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