Example sentences of "many schools " in BNC.

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1 AIDS is a sensitive area which many schools are unsure how to tackle .
2 There are , of course , many schools other than those listed in the appendix , and also a great many private coaches , all of whom may be found in the publication Contacts , a trade book everyone interested in joining the profession should obtain from the office of The Spotlight , 42–43 Cranbourn St , London WC2H 7AP .
3 She particularly noted the squalid condition of many schools .
4 ‘ The effects of reduced capital spending have almost certainly created a backlog of repairs and replacements which still leads to the widely held view ( outside government ) that the fabric of many schools remains poor . ’
5 Many schools have team members in reserve so that a quota can always be mustered to stand in for any bona fide team member whose parents can not afford the trip .
6 As Robert Balchin , chairman of the GM Schools Foundation , says : ‘ Many schools faced bitter hostility in opting out of the LEAs to which Labour will forcibly return them .
7 Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E .
8 Many schools produce aims which are essentially vague aspirations and objectives which are unattainable as they are not translatable into actions nor can their achievement be measured .
9 By these criteria many schools consistently ‘ fail ’ as they publish the same objectives every year .
10 The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools .
11 For example , many schools , colleges and environmental groups have spent time in remote islands , producing for their own use reports which contain botanical information which remains rather inaccessible .
12 Many schools , colleges and universities in Latin America are part of the church 's empire and so values , inculcated here , are in line with the dominant Catholic Hispanic mores .
13 As truancy is a major problem in many schools in England and Wales , it is important that all teachers are aware of the law governing enforcement of school attendance , and its limitations .
14 The scale of concern recently about the level of indiscipline and disruption in many schools resulting from pupil misbehaviour has to some extent been unwarranted , possibly inflamed by scare stories in the media and a greater willingness on the part of the profession , during a period of low morale and frustration , to report incidences of disruption and physical attacks on teachers .
15 HMI ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ( of schools ) ) found that ‘ in many schools , … the guidelines for staff contain much on sanctions and punishments , and very little on praise and rewards , .
16 The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ .
17 Too many schools demand that parents and children be uncritical fans .
18 The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises .
19 It 's amazing how difficult it is for strangers to find the main entrance to many schools , particularly when the school is a modern flat roofed single storey building .
20 Many schools regularly invite parents to share in a family service where children make the major input .
21 It does seem strange that in many schools governors ' meetings are not open to the public .
22 It 's amazing how many schools that front busy roads have name boards but no notice boards .
23 Almost as an off-shoot to lending children good books from their libraries many schools are now acting as agents in selling popular titles .
24 There is some irony in the fact that many schools are on the one hand educating children about healthy eating and on the other selling at break time nothing less than junk foods such as crisps , chewy fruit sweets and chocolate bars .
25 Nearly half of them had ‘ special ’ places , and in many schools ( like Cardiff High School ) there were only special places .
26 Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools .
27 This gave rise to the growth of the movement for ‘ gifted children ’ , a movement resented and disliked by many schools .
28 Many schools chose to enter the scheme as a way of getting fresh resources .
29 Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board .
30 In many schools the majority of pupils may be practising Jews , Muslims , or Hindus .
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