Example sentences of "of the board of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the attitude of the Board of Education was later to favour the provision made by university extra-mural departments , whose functions developed rapidly during this period , rather than the WEA . |
| 2 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 3 | Most of the senior officials of the Board of Education were evacuated to a Bournemouth hotel , leaving as their man in London , R. S. Wood . |
| 4 | Butler became President of the Board of Education in July and saw the purpose of a discussion on the Book as being ‘ to sound for shoals , as it were ’ . |
| 5 | R. A. Butler , as president of the Board of Education , was the principal guest . |
| 6 | He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) . |
| 7 | It is worth noticing that at least one senior member of the Board of Education ( William Cleary , Head of the Elementary Branch ) had argued , as early as 1941 , against the tripartite system and in favour of comprehensive schools . |
| 8 | However , despite the repeated calls for co-operation between the different interests , nothing could be done to allay the criticisms of certain members of the Board of Education , sections of the educational press , notably the School Government Chronicle ( organ of the LEAs ) , and several local Directors of Education . |
| 9 | In 1916 , H. A. L. Fisher , the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University , was appointed President of the Board of Education , with the promise that ‘ money would be found for ambitious educational measures ’ . |
| 10 | This question is taken from the opening section of the report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education on the Primary School chaired by W H Hadow . |
| 11 | This interdepartmental Committee on the Medical Inspection and Feeding of Children Attending Public Elementary Schools was appointed in March 1905 and was , in the words of the minister responsible , Lord Londonderry , ( President of the Board of Education ) not to be ‘ at liberty to make far-reaching proposals that the Unionist party would decline to support ’ . |
| 12 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |
| 13 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |
| 14 | Indeed , even after the first wave of evacuation had taken place it was the view of the Board of Education that ‘ if there were any further large-scale evacuation it would probably be a hasty one , occasioned by sudden and serious bombing . |
| 15 | For example , in December 1938 Ben Smith , MP , wrote to the Board of Education warning that on the evidence of the evacuation rehearsals of September 1938 there would be a sufficient number of ill-clad or poorly-shod children to hinder the successful operation of the scheme ; but in reply the President of the Board of Education , Earl de la Warr , blandly denied that this would be so . |
| 16 | Probably the loudest chorus of complaint came from North Wales , where Liverpool children had been billeted : thus Lord Wyndham ( Civil Defence Regional Commissioner for Wales ) wrote to the President of the Board of Education on 25 October 1939 that : |
| 17 | Official despair was summed up in a letter from Sir Edward Howarth , Director of the National Camps Corporation ( which ran the schools ) to N. D. Bosworth Smith of the Board of Education , on 13 August 1942 ; Howarth had just read the latest report on the children 's growth rates and commented : |
| 18 | As the new President of the Board of Education , R. A. Butler , put it , in delightful contrast to his officials ' rather ponderous concern , ‘ Children are human and if they run about too much do n't put on weight . |
| 19 | R. A. Butler believed the Education Act that was introduced and passed during his tenure as President of the Board of Education was a major change , in the direction of making Britain educationally ‘ one nation , not two ’ . |
| 20 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 21 | A report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education in 1931 ( The Primary School ) contained words which were repeated by the Plowden Report in 1967 , " What a wise and good parent would desire for his own children , that a nation must desire for all children . " |
| 22 | Even after the first national curriculum was quietly abandoned , elementary schools remained under the general regulations of the Board of Education , which meant in effect , continuing to teach history . |
| 23 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 24 | When the evidence was in , the seven members of the board of education did what everyone knew they would . |
| 25 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 26 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 27 | Sir John Sinclair , President of the Board of Agriculture , had Ward paint his ‘ Alderney ’ at his estate on the Isle of Thanet . |
| 28 | ‘ We , the ten members of the board of management , believe that John Birt is the best person to lead the BBC and he has our unanimous support . ’ |
| 29 | Nevertheless Mr Wyatt — a key member of the board of management responsible for the day-to-day running of the BBC — conceded on Radio 4 's the World This Weekend that Mr Birt 's battered reputation would need time to recover . |
| 30 | While Deutsche Bundespost Telekom views its joint venture with France Telecom , Eunetcom , as the ‘ foundation for our world activity , we think it is necessary to have a partner from the US and from the Pacific Basin , ’ said Dieter Gallist , a member of the board of management for Telekom at the Networked Economy Conference in Paris : ‘ We are in the middle of discussions so I wo n't say any more , however , ’ he added ; Gallist added later that Bundespost Telekom is also ‘ looking strongly in the direction of software alliances . ’ |