Example sentences of "the teachers " in BNC.

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1 If you have done any class work before attempting the drama school audition , most of the teachers will at some point in their sessions have talked about ‘ relaxation ’ .
2 The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit .
3 The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right .
4 So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century .
5 Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day .
6 Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines .
7 Jewish education is understood in three phases : primarily in the home , which is regarded as a sort of mini-temple , so strongly are the emphases and traditions posited there ; at school , in the normal way , as with all growing children ; and at Hebrew school , which is attached to the synagogue under the rabbi or the teachers appointed by him .
8 He does , however , remember the yardstick or strap which was then used to facilitate good conduct and discipline by the teachers . )
9 To offset the problem , the teachers agreed to salary cuts !
10 we believe that undergraduates in English would benefit from more ‘ systematic ’ and less ‘ inspirational ’ instruction and that this systematic instruction and its associated reading lists should be agreed by the teachers concerned and closely related to the needs of the Tripos course .
11 The teachers on such a programme would have to confront the difficulty I have just raised , as well as questions about the mimetic values of fiction in the face of structuralist and poststructuralist assertions that word and world have no necessary relation .
12 Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time .
13 All the teachers in 1987 who were entitled to an allowance received one .
14 For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system .
15 Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching .
16 John MacGregor , the Secretary of State for Education , has shown with the teachers that he actually listens to what they say .
17 Among the recipients were the teachers and pupils of Winchester College , of which Lord Aldington was Warden .
18 The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers .
19 The teachers ' public image had been badly damaged by the ‘ posturings of a few ’ in the strikes two years ago .
20 The teachers ’ strike had a big effect on many of the schools playing union in this part of the country — and rugby league simply stepped in .
21 It was the teachers too who taught the metric system as against the local weights and measures , thus slowly inculcating a sense of wider , national unity .
22 Yet as of 1922 the political reliability of the teachers was notoriously low : large numbers of them were remnants from the old regime .
23 He was a former horse-vet who provided the teachers with food when it was short , criticized the priests , and guarded the local fire-carts .
24 The plight of the teachers became even worse in 1923 .
25 It was increasingly difficult for the government to rely on popular hostility towards the teachers ' unions in getting through what many saw as a direct attack on quality in the schools .
26 Since all the teachers in the faculty hitherto were Anglican , this choice of a Methodist for a key post did not go unobserved .
27 Everyone else 's mother came in neat and respectful skirts , and were accompanied by neat and respectful fathers who sought wisdom and understanding from the teachers .
28 The structure of primary education in Britain is implicitly racist — in the books used , the curriculum , the teachers ' attitudes .
29 He did n't want female teachers or pupils to wear trousers — the teachers because it is ‘ unladylike and unprofessional ’ and the girls for ‘ reasons of hygiene ’ , says Cathy Pemberton , an ex-teacher from Essex Junior School in Newham .
30 The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition .
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