Example sentences of "education was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many other desiderata of the socialist revolution came into the same category , but women 's education was of particular interest because it ran counter to widespread expectations shared by most men and probably most women .
2 She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them .
3 The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue .
4 The principle that education was to be open to all , irrespective of means ; public galleries and museums should be open to all , the National Health Service likewise .
5 The future provision for liberal adult education was to be shared in ways which broadly represented existing arrangements with most , though not all , financial costs being borne by grant-aid from the Ministry of Education and the LEAs .
6 Thus education was to be productive of a ‘ good ’ , politically respectable State ; but it must not be seen as instrumental in any narrow or vocational way .
7 The notion of education was to be interpreted in the widest sense of the word to include physical , moral , and mental training .
8 There were to be times when education was to be secondary to his role as a mediator .
9 Elementary education was to be provided for all children in England and Wales ; now did the village want a new church school , or would it prefer a board school , one which would be secular and undenominational ?
10 Within this context , education was to be given priority as the chief means " for promoting in social life that equality of condition with which men now faced death on the battlefield . "
11 The central discipline of this new liberal education was to be English .
12 Instead the government opted for a ‘ binary ’ system , whereby the provision of higher education was to be shared by the universities , the colleges of education , and new institutions to be called polytechnics .
13 Education was to be funded from both taxes and rates .
14 Education was to be compulsory from 5 to 15 years of age .
15 They raised them to 100% so that all secondary education was to be carried out on selection by merit.47
16 Indeed , the assumption among Labour ‘ intellectuals ’ such as Harold Wilson , Richard Crossman , Anthony Crosland , and Hugh Dalton was that the best possible education was at a public school even if the public schools , on political grounds , had to go .
17 His further education was at St Mary 's Hall , Oxford .
18 As with earlier generations of his Quaker family , his secondary education was at Bootham School , York .
19 If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship .
20 Much secondary level education was in the hands of foreign missionaries .
21 As the programme of library education was in a state of active development , many of the methods used were intended to provide formative evaluation on which course modifications could be based .
22 Well I , my education was in a small er the local school , School in Motherwell .
23 The dominance of teachers meant , in the 1960s , that the management of education was in virtually powerless hands at the DES .
24 As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials .
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