Example sentences of "in the sixth " in BNC.
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| 1 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 2 | JONATHAN SPEELMAN gave his supporters an anxious day in the sixth round of the Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 4 | In the sixth arrondissement , between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des Saints-Peres , the Seine and the Luxembourg , about one hundred folk are traced , as they moved their operations from the Flore to the Deux Magots to the Brasserie Lipp or from the brothels of the Rue Gregoire de Tours to the cheap hotels , La Madison and La Lousiane but especially Le Montana . |
| 5 | Scotland , which has a broader exam taken after only one year in the sixth form , keeps a higher proportion of 16-year-olds on at school — and its university courses normally last four years . |
| 6 | Metalworking remains at Sardis in Turkey suggest that this process , called ‘ parting ’ , was employed there in the sixth century BC to refine gold from the river Pactolus . |
| 7 | A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur . |
| 8 | Christians , having in the sixth century finally rejected the concept of reincarnation , were thrown back upon two main arguments justifying God 's ways to man , neither of which is altogether convincing . |
| 9 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 10 | The fact that both rituals continued to be practised even after the 70 AD fall of the Temple in Jerusalem when other cult-associated rituals fell into disuse and when the overt reason , at least , for the laws of female purity no longer pertained , demonstrates their central significance to the Jewish system of gender creation and differentiation — and the real hidden agenda behind their initial promulgation in the sixth century BC . |
| 11 | A Byzantine historian remarked of the Franks in the sixth century that ‘ although they have become Christians , they still keep a greater part of their ancient religion ’ . |
| 12 | In the sixth century its ancient Christian traditions were strong enough to sustain resistance to Justinian 's attempts to dictate doctrine to the church . |
| 13 | Now I 'm in the sixth form and I can wear anything I like , it 's great . |
| 14 | West 45th Street , in Manhattan , said he had not seen so many people intent on a show since the Mets had played the Houston Astros in the sixth game of the playoff for the National League pennant , and even then they had not stood so close up to the screen . |
| 15 | The talented Davies played soccer for Wales Schools Under-15s while at Pencoed Comprehensive , a rugby school , before switching codes in the sixth form to captain Wales Schools at rugby . |
| 16 | Hendry missed a red three times from a snooker in the sixth and lost by eight points as his rival levelled . |
| 17 | And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee , named Nazareth . |
| 18 | In the sixth edition §248 Hahnemann describes the daily succussion of the LM solutions as : ‘ altering and slightly increasing the degree of potency ’ suggesting a gradual almost exponential curve of increasing potency which never actually reaches the next degree until a further dilution step in taken . |
| 19 | Some of these are included in the Sixth Five Year Plan , and some of which have been tacked on to ad hoc annual plans . |
| 20 | I was placed in an express stream , specialized in arts subjects , after four years took nine subjects in the School Certificate , and then specialized still further to take English , history , and French for two years in the sixth form . |
| 21 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
| 22 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 23 | But most teachers with amorous intent are wise enough to wait until the girls are in the sixth form . |
| 24 | Two centuries or more later , in the sixth century BC , the first Greek philosophers speculated , without invoking mythology , on how the world was generated . |
| 25 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 26 | The Celtic Church , founded in the sixth century by St Columba with the aid of Irish-trained monks , followed Rome in always celebrating Easter on a Sunday , unlike the eastern Churches ; but owing to its remoteness the Celtic Church experienced difficulty in being kept fully informed of doctrinal and other changes decided on in Rome . |
| 27 | Already in the sixth century BC , at the time when Buddha and Mahavira lived , that part of India was ruled by the Achaemenids of Iran , and Iranian influences have been important in India ever since . |
| 28 | The last two years consisted either of a course in the sixth form aimed at technology-related A levels , or with Youth Opportunity training schemes . |
| 29 | For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form . |
| 30 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |