Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the sixth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils would continue with up to six subjects in the sixth form , in varying proportion of I- and A-level . |
| 2 | If his leaning is towards the physical side , or his leaning towards to biological side , to take chemistry , biology and physics , to take those subjects in the sixth form at A level , and then come straight to university and develop his inclinations in the way that he is here to do . |
| 3 | The Corinthias celebrated the fall of the Bacchiad tyrants in the sixth century by building the great temple of Apollo — and also by reorganizing and strengthening their tribal system . |
| 4 | twenty one months in the sixth form , please do n't think that everybody has two years , erm and those , those |
| 5 | The first of these areas in the sixth century was usually divided up into a number of geographically coherent kingdoms . |
| 6 | The apparent rarity of balances in the sixth century emphasises the change that had taken place , especially in Kent . |
| 7 | ‘ I was doing fine art , fashion and textiles in the sixth form . |
| 8 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 9 | I was placed in an express stream , specialized in arts subjects , after four years took nine subjects in the School Certificate , and then specialized still further to take English , history , and French for two years in the sixth form . |
| 10 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 11 | The report called for changes in the sixth form , less specialisation and some mathematics for all pupils . |
| 12 | The talented Davies played soccer for Wales Schools Under-15s while at Pencoed Comprehensive , a rugby school , before switching codes in the sixth form to captain Wales Schools at rugby . |
| 13 | Well I ca n't say that everybody 's going to be dancing in the streets , those who are teachers in the sixth forms in the schools that will be affected , but I think again you 've got to have a look at the overall and longer term provision of these things . |
| 14 | Recruitment was still predominantly local , and the low numbers who studied foreign languages in the sixth forms secured University places with little difficulty , and postponed their decision to teach . |
| 15 | The 22 girls in the Sixth Form quickly managed to produce a netball team , though it won only one of its six matches ; the First Formers were much better , winning twelve of their twenty in netball , and four of their six in hockey . |
| 16 | ‘ We have girls in the sixth form , mm ? ’ |
| 17 | Pythagoras and his pupils in the sixth century BC taught of the rotation of the Earth , and Archimedes calculated its rotation in the second century BC as scientifically as modern astronomers do now . |
| 18 | My name is Rebecca Burns , I have just started my A-levels courses in the sixth form at the Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College , in Wellington , Telford . |
| 19 | For that matter , a computer catalogue could relate different demands together , so that one could find out what was in the collection in tape-slide format on the emigration of Cornish tin-miners to southern Wisconsin in the nineteenth century , suitable for advanced students in the sixth form ( ages 17–18 ) . |
| 20 | Secondly , most schools at present do not expect the student to spend very much of his school time in individual study except at the whim or discretion of the teacher , and the only facilities for such study are the school library ( when available ) and , for the older students in the sixth form , sometimes a sixth-form study room . |
| 21 | The town , called the Golden Ford when founded by the Saxons in the sixth century , was originally a site where treasures were buried in ancient graves . |
| 22 | Every new archaeological discovery emphasizes the close contacts of Greeks with Etruscans in the sixth century . |
| 23 | The Cloaca Maxima is a floodwater drain built by the Etruscans in the sixth century B.C. to drain the Forum Romanum . |
| 24 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
| 25 | The road-building of the Pisistratids in the sixth century was what made this possible . |