Example sentences of "university [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 2 | So he had worn scruffy jeans and a Texas University T-shirt to his Downing Street breakfast . |
| 3 | J. R. Grehan Victoria University Wellington |
| 4 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 5 | Poised as it is , midway between the University cities , and on the main line to London , with the M.1. only a few miles away , Wolverton seems like something out of Fanny by Gaslight . |
| 6 | The area is surrounded by major tourist venues within reasonable distance , including Warwick Castle , Coventry Cathedral , Stratford-on-Avon , Woburn Abbey , and the university cities of Cambridge and Oxford . |
| 7 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 8 | It was graduation day for Oxford 's Mike Ford in the challenge of the University cities on Saturday . |
| 9 | A revamped University Funding Council , directed by a former Cambridge don , Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , threatened to impose much more severe financial disciplines on universities that were already struggling ; on the other hand , the 1985 Jarratt Report resulted in complex new structures of planning , resource management , and managerial accountability . |
| 10 | In higher education , for example , the idea of the autonomy of the University Grants Committee ( replaced in 1988 by the University Funding Council ) as a buffer between the universities and the Department of Education and Science has been shattered and the Department has regularly intervened with advice to universities and polytechnics about subject areas which should have greater or less resources . |
| 11 | Opponents resented the cuts in university funding and complained that the government was hostile to higher education , particularly to studies of the humanities , which fostered a critical spirit of enquiry . |
| 12 | Fifty-five per cent of university funding in Britain comes from public money . |
| 13 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 14 | A straw in the wind will be who is appointed to an important new quango that will control university funding , the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |
| 15 | In fact the1880s main building , a Grade I listed extravaganza modelled on Chambord , is in a structurally sound condition , having had money from the Pilgrim Trust , the Wolfson Foundation and the University Funding Council spent on it over the last ten years . |
| 16 | The South African budget for this year gives university researchers less than they need to keep pace with inflation and allocates most of the additional spending on science to applied work in government laboratories , dashing hopes of a significant increase in university funding . |
| 17 | As university funding has come to hinge on publication , this has been encouraged for its own sake . |
| 18 | Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol . |
| 19 | For the sake of argument — and I do not concede this — I recognise that the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) is asserting that there are downward pressures on university funding . |
| 20 | University funding arrangements mean that one lecturer can be financed by the fees of between eight ( Leeds ) and ten ( Edinburgh ) students . |
| 21 | These management statistics are going to have an increasingly important rôle in determining university funding and spending in the coming years , and it is to be hoped that figures for all disciplines will be available in future . |
| 22 | None the less , it has concluded that if the backlog is to be eliminated there will need to be a similar increase in the recurrent baseline , which represents a substantial commitment of university funding . |
| 23 | Continuing changes in university funding meant that finding an alternative source of financing the care of the Torrie collection and the university 's other artworks was essential , Dr Macmillan said . |
| 24 | Until now , grants to the eight older universities have come from the University Funding Council in Bristol , while the Scottish Office funded the 17 central institutions , including four new universities , technical institutes and specialist centres . |
| 25 | Research grants were worked out using the national research ratings published by the University Funding Council last year . |
| 26 | These also suggest what the answer should be or indicate the questioner 's point of view , e.g. ‘ Are you against excessive cuts in university funding ? ’ . |
| 27 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
| 28 | The following GIMMS commands were entered into a file called ( on the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system ) PMMLIB.GIMMSAF . |
| 29 | The GIMMS commands and line segment data described above are stored in a file called PMMLIB.GIMMSAF on the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system , as described in the preceding paragraph . |
| 30 | Remember that these system commands are specific to the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system ; you will have to use the equivalent command appropriate to the computer system used at your computer centre . |