Example sentences of "school at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time .
2 If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance .
3 Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year .
4 Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs .
5 As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line .
6 The vast majority of participants have not had previous experience of higher or adult education , and had left school at the minimum age .
7 In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position .
8 The county primary school at the western end of the green is now modernised .
9 I left school at the early age of twelve and a half , my father having died when I was nine .
10 In 1901 Bolton was appointed first headmaster of the new day school at the Architectural Association .
11 His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College .
12 erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education .
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