Example sentences of "[prep] which [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the kinds of academic skills important in primary schools — especially reading and writing-are those for which girls ' earlier family socialisation may have prepared them better . |
| 2 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 3 | At the same time , firms not taking part in takeovers took on more debt , either gradually or in so-called ‘ leveraged recapitalisations ’ — in effect self-takeovers in which firms ' existing shareholders swapped some of their equity into debt . |
| 4 | Continuing NT 's back pain campaign , we examine practical ways in which nurses ' own awareness of the problem can be raised . |
| 5 | Dyson ( 1986 ) , for example , drew attention to the ways in which professionals ' confidential files often contain materials contributing to the social stereotyping of children and their families . |
| 6 | studies the extent to which firms ' fixed costs have been raised by Employment Protection legislation and the implications for work patterns ; |
| 7 | An additional variable is needed to account for the variation between the firms in the extent to which clients ' chosen outcomes were retained or transformed . |