Example sentences of "teacher ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher 's list for analysing pictures may be something like that of the American educationalist Thomas Munro : first impressions of the picture as a whole , line , light and dark , colour , mass , space , unity of design . |
| 2 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 3 | School courts are crumbling and repair is a very low priority in a head teacher 's budget . |
| 4 | It nevertheless has increased teacher 's accountability . |
| 5 | Information on a teacher 's classroom ability is almost entirely lacking . |
| 6 | He felt the teacher 's rostrum to be his fit place ; the place where he knew that what he had to offer was valued . |
| 7 | It was plain that the existing accommodation — two classrooms separated by a half-glazed folding partition , a head teacher 's office and WC block — did not provide an arrangement that could be easily adapted to give convenient living space . |
| 8 | Allied-Lyons already sells Ballantine 's , Canadian Club , Glendronach malt , Teacher 's Scotch , Tia Maria , Canadian Club , Courvoisier , Babycham , Harveys Bristol Cream and Cockburn 's port . |
| 9 | Early in September the four Thomas brothers were told to make ready for the journey home , where Ernest had to re-sit for his Teacher 's Certificate , and Edward was left with scarcely a month to reassure Helen of his faithfulness and to make his final preparations before beginning his historical studies with Owen M. Edwards . |
| 10 | Under their teacher 's guidance little hands had struggled — arranging , rearranging , fingering — plates such as this , to remember , and to show love for , the aged at Christmas-time . |
| 11 | She talked cheerfully in her usual bright , slightly authoritative teacher 's way about the weather , without the slightest loss of dignity . |
| 12 | The teacher 's ruler would point first to a pupil and then to a particular feature on the map . |
| 13 | ’ There was a long painful silence , interrupted at last by the teacher 's impatient voice . |
| 14 | The teacher 's slap , and his colleagues ' support , served notice that women , too , would in future be subject to the disciplines of institutions outside the family , that fathers and husbands would have to share their authority over women . |
| 15 | He emigrated to the United States as a child and received a teacher 's certificate from Nebraska University in 1916 . |
| 16 | Dependent on size of school , ‘ whole-school visits ( in teacher 's car , school van ) may be more feasible . |
| 17 | Of these he lists the following : lying to escape punishment ; eating too many apples and pears ; stealing fruit from orchards ; playing too much ; gambling ; being over fond of reading romances and old fables ; imitating other boys in their foolish talking and behaviour ; being over fond of his teacher 's praises ; and being cheeky and disrespectful towards his parents . |
| 18 | Students were on a grant of £40 a year and a primary teacher 's salary was £18 a month . |
| 19 | To start with , there is little detail in the story ; as concentration and absorption grow with experience , the detail can increase by the teacher 's approach and type of suggestion . |
| 20 | The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher 's instructions . |
| 21 | The teacher 's pre-planning ensures that the necessary connections are made . |
| 22 | For Dorothy Heathcote , whether the object is a shirt , a piece of leather , a chess-piece , a book or a surgeon 's knife , the teacher 's responsibility is to invite or even compel the children to work from a ‘ frame ’ ( used here in the sociological sense of ‘ perspective ’ ) that requires not engagement , but detachment . |
| 23 | The teacher 's attitude is positive and she minimises the dangers they are likely to face . |
| 24 | There is an implied structure here to do with a competitive outdoing of the teacher 's role by the pupils in terms of information and experience . |
| 25 | But there may be a more useful structure implicit in the teacher 's role itself — as government spokesman . |
| 26 | Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ ! |
| 27 | A classic example is when the teacher within the fiction assumes an authoritarian role which follows too closely to what the children see as teacher 's normal role pattern . |
| 28 | Preparing the way for dramatic playing by first setting up performance and/or exercise modes is often a very necessary part of teacher 's structuring . |
| 29 | The most subtle strategy available to a teacher is that of teacher-in-role , for this device is flexible enough to have any one of the three functions ; it can take the pupils ' attention off themselves by allowing them passively or actively to use teacher 's role as a projection , or it can be non-projective and challenge the pupils to interact . |
| 30 | Thus , for a few moments they reverted to passive projection , in role merely as spectators of teacher 's performance . |