Example sentences of "school [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is little discussion in many schools between the different disciplines of language teaching , and indeed a lack of mutual support amongst colleagues in general .
2 Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited .
3 They are put forward by the schools through the local authorities , except that of course there are a large number of independent schools in East and West Sussex , and these schools have I wrote to these ones asking if they had any children that they wanted to nominate .
4 Not only will the German and French teachers themselves benefit , in their increased command of English and knowledge of British life and institutions ( as large numbers of British teachers of German benefited who worked in German schools during the seventies , when Germany had a teacher shortage ) but they will bring their great asset of native-speaker fluency and intimate knowledge and experience of the foreign country to foreign language classrooms that are increasingly practical and communicative .
5 Another significant factor has been the instrumental ‘ explosion ’ which has affected all schools during the last forty years .
6 But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education .
7 York Children 's Trust is holding talks with the city council to find suitable sites for two statues commemorating the Blue and Grey Coat schools for the poor .
8 York Children 's Trust is holding talks with the city council to find suitable sites for two statues commemorating the Blue and Grey Coat schools for the poor .
9 Probaby the most hopeful news is that Brazil , the world 's largest Catholic nation is going to put AIDS and sexual education onto the curriculum of state schools for the first time from February this year .
10 D. The rural areas have little income but a great need for services , such as hospitals for the old and schools for the young .
11 I think the classic example of this is the rate and the rate support system and all the sort of public services — care of the elderly , schools for the young — would come from this .
12 So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material .
13 However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . )
14 In the period 1850 to 1880 , eighteen more schools for the deaf were started , eleven of them in London alone — eight day schools of the London School Board Classes , and three private or charitable schools including one for children of the Jewish faith .
15 Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education .
16 The British delegation of eight comprised of two Principals of Oral Schools for the Deaf which had a combined total of less than 25 students !
17 The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf .
18 The two schools later relocated to Saltersgill and are now known as the Beverley Schools for the Deaf , Middlesbrough .
19 This grew into what is now Braidwood Schools for the Deaf .
20 Around the turn of the century , oralism was at its most fervent in British schools for the deaf while at the same time many deaf people were extremely worried by the lack of education being given .
21 Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition .
22 Also opened , in 1905 , was the Sir James E. Jones Industrial Training School attached to the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford which sought to teach school-leavers the bootmaking , tailoring , carpentry and bakery trades .
23 There was so much poverty during the 1920s that there was grave concern for the general health of children in residential schools for the deaf .
24 Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 .
25 Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War .
26 In London , the Old Kent Road and Anerley Schools for the Deaf which were both occupied by civil defence and military authorities at the time were also substantially damaged and needed major repairs after the war before they could be reoccupied .
27 It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " .
28 It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf .
29 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 .
30 Fine Arts Brass has always been actively involved in educational projects , and as well as coaching students , is involved in a nationwide series of schools concerts under the banner ‘ Legal and General Concert for Children ’ , which has recently bee expanded to include concerts in Schools for the deaf .
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