Example sentences of "[noun] for the deaf [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 2 | In the meantime , other members of the cast were involved with projects for the deaf and for prisoners . |
| 3 | Central News South was the first regional news programme in Britain to experiment with sub-titles for the deaf and hard of hearing last January . |
| 4 | At the time of his appointment Verney was social work service officer in the Welsh Office with special responsibility for the deaf and blind in Wales . |
| 5 | From these small beginnings , the Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( later to become the Royal Association for the Deaf ) took its roots . |
| 6 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |
| 7 | He was a regular attendant at services for the deaf held at St. Saviour 's Church , and was on the committee of the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 8 | On the first day of BDA Week 1985 twelve deaf children , chosen from various schools for the deaf and accompanied by their teachers and Susanne Turfus , presented the Declaration and a copy of the Report to Sir Keith Joseph in his office at the Department of Education and Science . |
| 9 | It reorganised itself in 1854 , and took an office in Regent Street , and a year later took the important step of appointing as lay-missioner a Samuel Smith , a teacher at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 10 | Youths who had left the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Doncaster roamed the streets at a loose end , causing mischief . |
| 11 | When the new Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in Edinburgh in 1810 with John Braidwood , grandson of Thomas Braidwood , as Principal , Walter Geikie was enrolled as one of the first students . |
| 12 | In the meantime however , Robert Kinniburgh , the Headmaster of the Edinburgh Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , was engaged for his sign language skills as interpreter for the Court . |
| 13 | Mary Brien was ordered to be sent to the Dublin Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for evaluation and to have her story checked , but the defendant was acquitted because the court ruled that the plaintiff could not utter the oath . |
| 14 | Now a professional football club playing in the 4th Division of the English football league , it owes its origins to a team formed by the pupils and staff of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 15 | He was accompanied by his Secretary , Dr. David Buxton , formerly headmaster at the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , who had become a convert to oral methods . |
| 16 | Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher . |
| 17 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 18 | Born in Southampton , he was educated as a private pupil at the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb by the sign and manual system . |
| 19 | William Agnew was born deaf in Glasgow , and at an early age was sent to be educated at the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , where he proved to be a remarkable scholar . |
| 20 | Alexander Ferguson was born deaf in Dundee , and was sent to the Edinburgh Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 21 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 22 | An excellent achievement was made by the boys of the Royal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Derby in 1902–3 . |
| 23 | He was not the only deaf person connected with the legal profession for Wakefield , Yorkshire , had a fully practising solicitor , Gerald Smith , of the firm Beaumont , Smith and Beaumont , who had been educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . |
| 24 | He was a President or Vice President of many deaf organisations , including the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate ; the Charitable and Provident Society for Granting Pensions to the Aged and Infirm Deaf ; London Deaf Cricket Club ; the London branch of the B.D.D.A. He was also a committee member of the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , and of the Winchester Deaf Diocesan Mission . |
| 25 | William Blomefield Sleight , who was born in 1849 , was the son of William Sleight , the much respected headmaster of the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 26 | B H Payne , Headmaster of the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea and one of the founder-members , replied with a long letter in the next issue . |
| 27 | In spite of his opposition to the aims and ideals of the N.D.D.S. and the B.D.D.A. , S. Bright Lucas did sterling work for the deaf and dumb poor of London and was a considerable influence in the founding of the National Deaf Club of which he was President . |
| 28 | When he was six years old , he became a private pupil of Dr. Joseph Watson , Principal of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Poor . |
| 29 | Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools . |
| 30 | Elizabeth Groves , as a young girl , had been befriended by the Queen who met the cost of her education at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb . |