Example sentences of "institutions [det] as [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Such a group may be large , as in the case of community studies of whole towns , or quite small , as in the various studies that have been made of street-corner boys , groups of school-pupils , or people institutions such as colleges or mental hospitals .
2 Elsewhere , significant explorations were made of the types of cooperative support that could be developed , between schools and teachers from different schools , and between a variety of other educational institutions such as colleges , polytechnics , universities and that peculiarly British innovation , the teachers ' centre .
3 The channels of distribution are marketing institutions such as wholesalers and retailers .
4 Each need identified has its own place in the vicious circle : a reluctance on the part of schools to deploy community language teachers as part of their staffing establishment , and to offer adequate capitation for teachers deployed from units outside of the school ; a shortage of Section 11 staff to meet the demand from schools for community language provision ; a lack of back-up facilities in local institutions such as teachers ' centres , curriculum development units and local universities and polytechnics .
5 Certain arts which are not profitable or even viable in market terms are sustained by specific institutions such as foundations , by organizations of subscribers , and still by some private patronage .
6 They have been extensively used in education to study the manner in which educational institutions such as schools vary and the factors which explain such variation .
7 Finally , there is institutional specialization , what Leeds calls the ‘ more-or-less autonomously ordered and chartered ways of doing things , ranging from large-scale orders such as government , church and education , to small-scale institutions such as roles ’ .
8 If we move away from the national level to consider the smaller local communities , or particular institutions such as factories and offices , colleges and schools , it is quite clear that there are no problems of either size or communications which stand in the way of their being governed according to the principle of direct participatory democracy .
9 Again , people in closed institutions such as prisons are at risk because they are more likely to have to share ‘ works ’ .
10 This course is designed to prepare graduates for careers as Hospitality Managers in hotels , restaurants , industrial catering , school meals catering , and other major institutions such as hospitals .
11 This course is designed to prepare participants for careers as Hospitality Managers at department and unit level in hotels , restaurants , industrial catering , school meals catering and other major institutions such as hospitals .
12 In institutions such as hospitals or the BBC , where colleagues and acquaintances run the risk of passing one another many times in the same morning , the ritual resources for handling brief encounters are often over-stretched .
13 The sub-standard meat is mixed with other boneless meat in boxes and is distributed to institutions such as hospitals and schools .
14 The type and degree of infrastructure such as roads and storage facilities , institutions such as banks , agricultural extension development projects , fiscal and monetary and pricing policy , the legal structure of land tenure and of environmental protection and conservation ; the state 's degree of intervention in international imports and exports — all these are part of an explanation of soil erosion .
15 Since April 1991 , non-taxpayers ( people whose taxable income is less than their allowances ) can request institutions such as banks and building societies to pay any interest owing to them gross , without deduction of tax at source .
16 Apart from the press and the other sources mentioned , ITV finance came from institutions such as banks and pension funds and , in due course , investors on the stock market ( usually limited to shares without voting rights ) .
17 Other organisations have different goals — institutions such as banks have to put accountability , reliability and security high on their list of priorities .
18 If one only takes educational institutions such as universities and colleges , let alone the world outside , the emancipatory impulse of the sixties and early seventies has been turned inside out .
  Next page