Example sentences of "school [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate :
2 Despite these differences the school experiences of the Afro-Caribbean pupils , on which she concentrates , appear very similar .
3 A common alternative is the spread of ‘ academic ’ and school elements throughout the four years .
4 Leicestershire County , in the meantime , was planning new school buildings for the resource-based learning concept , placing the library resource centre of Manor High School , Oadby , at the heart of the school in a very real sense ( Edwards 1969 ) .
5 The University remains of the view , in common with many other institutions , that with changes in the school curricula on the one hand and the need for better preparation for graduate work ( notably in the European context ) on the other , it will need to extend some undergraduate courses from three to four years .
6 If we are studying school-pupils in a certain area , then we might try to get hold of a list of all secondary school attenders from the local education office .
7 Understandably , there is a shortage of good people wanting to join the profession ; and the strikes of 1985–7 did nothing to improve the status of school teachers in the public esteem .
8 It reported in 1904 , urging the establishment of a school medical service and the provision of school meals within the public education system .
9 ( Their powers and duties resemble those given to English and Welsh school governors by the 1986 Education Act rather than those given by the 1988 Education Reform Act . )
10 Robert Southam spent school holidays with the National Youth Theatre , read modern languages at Oxford and has since worked as an actor at some of England 's leading provincial theatres ( Manchester , Sheffield , Guildford etc. ) , in London , with Grotowski 's company in Venice and for BBC Radio .
11 Chula took Rudd to various pre-war motor races , and he spent his school holidays at the White Mouse garage in Hammersmith , helping to clean their ERAs and absorbing the atmosphere .
12 My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher .
13 Tens of thousands of visitors from school children to the Prime Minister attended the six-day environment , wildlife and conservation exhibition .
14 A video designed to introduce school children to the basic issues of Third World development , a handbook entitled Organising for Social Change , and a multimedia guide to community participation are just three of the products described in A Catalogue of Development Resources ( Media Services ) , published by Private Agencies Collaborating Together ( PACT ) .
15 School meals need to be marketed to school children in the same way that brewers market themselves , Theo Goldberg , managing director of marketing firm IMCOT , recently told the Local Authority Caterers Association annual conference .
16 We live today in an age where the dark plague of liberal decadence casts its shadow everywhere and all about us , from the school gates to the political system .
17 He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education .
18 This brief chapter has included details of the major LEA and school initiatives in the home-school field between the start of PNP in 1985 and the end of our fieldwork in 1990 .
19 Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road .
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