Example sentences of "students had " in BNC.
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| 31 | Compared to their rural counterparts and unemployed urban youth , students had definite advantages but many felt disappointed with the realities of higher education in the 1980s after the optimistic language of the early reform years . |
| 32 | Overall , however , students had a strong sense of duty to help China develop into a powerful , modern country , but they were uncertain as to how they could contribute given the constraints placed on them . |
| 33 | The preparations were halted by the news that the arrested students had been released . |
| 34 | The cold and tired students had made their point . |
| 35 | The students had called the authorities ' bluff with their protests and shown solidarity across the country . |
| 36 | While engaged in this intensive study of a narrow range of the English language , the students had little time for anything else . |
| 37 | At Qinghua University , I was told of a ‘ suicide building ’ where thirteen students had leapt to their death that year , mostly because of failure in love . |
| 38 | Although students had a small subsidy , the increases represented a further erosion of living standards , for them as well as other urban residents.a Price rises of 30–50 per cent were not uncommon at this time . |
| 39 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
| 40 | The students had , however , taken a fairly bold action to call attention to their grievance . |
| 41 | Although criticising the Africans , whom many Chinese do not like because they have more money because of higher scholarships and a greater degree of freedom , there is a legitimate case to be made for the view that the students had found another excuse to bring attention to their own problems and views about conditions in China . |
| 42 | The students had difficulty augmenting the semantic net . |
| 43 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 44 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 45 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 46 | First , we must note that the researchers found that , for a start , the Cornell students had greater prior knowledge of both the passages studied in the experiment than the community college students . |
| 47 | Throughout much of these types of activity , the practice of careful observation , note-taking and written accounts will play an important part ; several of the schools reporting in Freeman 's ( 1969 ) book on team teaching stated that their students had gained a valuable facility in note-taking which was required not only for science but in other subject fields . |
| 48 | Students had begun to be exposed to a range of different approaches such as Steiner on comparative literature and linguistics , Raymond Williams on cultural studies , John Holloway on structural analysis , and an assortment of others ranging form traditional historical criticism to contemporary continental theory . |
| 49 | Almost all of the science students in the sample had taken A levels in physics , maths and chemistry or physics , maths and further maths ; one had A levels in physics , maths and English , while two had A levels in geography , and some physical science students had biology rather than maths A level : these , however , formed a very small minority of the whole . |
| 50 | In this section , we shall look at how the ideals and expectations students had of science compared with the reality of studying the subject . |
| 51 | The science students had very full timetables ; these consisted mainly of lectures , with some lab sessions and problem classes or tutorials ( the latter being much less frequent on the physical science course ) . |
| 52 | The mention of the word ‘ arts ’ often brought out feelings of resentment in physics students about the apparently easy time arts students had of it : |
| 53 | The same theme recurred frequently ; because arts students had few timetabled hours , science students tended to assume that they did little work , although one first-year physical science student did note that most of her work was done in lectures and labs , while many girls on her corridor had a lot of background work to do outside timetabled sessions . |
| 54 | In addition , science students thought that arts students had freer relationships with staff , and this resulted in an attitude of some disdain towards the arts : |
| 55 | Physics and physical science students had a strong sense of the hierarchy of different disciplines ; Debbie , for example , described business studies ( which she had originally hoped to study at university ) as a ‘ soft option ’ ; a first-year physics student at A described astro-physics ( a course also run by the department ) as ‘ watered-down physics ’ . |
| 56 | The perceptions that most science students had of the arts , then , are grounded within a discourse which regards education as primarily functional , believes learning to be concerned with the acquisition of knowledge , and views the relationship between different types of knowledge as hierarchical . |
| 57 | It was noted earlier that some physics students had had difficulty choosing between science and arts at A level , and these students , like those who had interests such as reading or music , were usually more broad-minded than those who had always regarded themselves as scientists ; for example |
| 58 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 59 | We have already seen that some of the less successful students had suffered a blow to their self-esteem as a consequence of the rigid rules on learning . |
| 60 | Seventeen of his students had died violently . |