Example sentences of "students had " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 2 | It added : ‘ This university is the last island of democracy in this country , ’ and said that during Ian Smith 's time as Prime Minister , students had the right to hold meetings on the campus without prior official approval . |
| 3 | Most second-year students had not returned yet ; they were still struggling back from cycling holidays in Iran . |
| 4 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 5 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 6 | Other students had always found him eccentric but now they found his behaviour very odd — a lot of muttering to himself , and a total incapacity for the practical things , and sudden disappearances into silences . |
| 7 | The students had not yet arrived , but I took meals in the refectory with a few of the college authorities and professors who had already started the new term 's work . |
| 8 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 9 | Several WEA students had benefited from the LEA 's support and at least two , E. W. Gurney and Arthur Kempster , were to become prominent figures in the civic life of the county in later years . |
| 10 | By 1930 , more than 500 students had enrolled in classes at some twenty-six rural centres . |
| 11 | By 1924 , the District had established some twenty branches and more than 1,000 students had attended its classes and courses . |
| 12 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 13 | The scheme ended and the students had no more formal contact with Rolls Royce . |
| 14 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 15 | To augment the tuition at the College , students had to traipse all over London to attend lectures at medical schools , and to hear additional veterinary lectures on private premises in the evening . |
| 16 | The students had no room in which to wait between lectures , but it was suggested to MRCVS that students who lodged near enough might go home if they wanted to , or more usefully spend their non-lecture time in the dissecting room or in the stables , although the Bell & Crown inn , with a good fire , was close at hand . |
| 17 | We would need to know far more about the actual course of study students had been following , albeit briefly , under Vial , before we could accept that Coleman maliciously reduced it , and that his motive , as claimed by Smith , was mercenary self-interest ( the 20 guineas student 's fee going into his pocket ) . |
| 18 | Coleman 's introductory lecture began late in November , and students had to stay in London in the heat of the following summer , when in those pre-formalin days they cut up carcasses at some hazard to their health . |
| 19 | Although the diploma was called ‘ a scrap of paper ’ by Baron Vaughan it was a guarantee that students had received a superior education , raising them far above the status of the farrier . |
| 20 | One of the students had tried to carry out a literature search during the summer , before coming on the course . |
| 21 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , the lack of cohesive leadership took its toll , and by late 1939 thirty of the original 166 students had reneged on their undertaking to emigrate to Palestine . |
| 23 | After all the drama of ‘ 68 , de Gaulle , of course , simply went querulously into retirement in 1969 after the students had gone back to their studies and the French electorate felt it was safe to dispense with his services . |
| 24 | And Rufus was wild too , the way medical students had a reputation for being . |
| 25 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 26 | Many students had strayed from the socialist path and needed to be reminded of the superiority of the socialist system . |
| 27 | Students had to attend special political classes to remind them of socialist values , the four basic principles and other tenets of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought . |
| 28 | The problems were immense , however , as students had no opportunity to select their own profession or place of work . |
| 29 | Students had high expectations for their future with the renewed emphasis on ‘ expertise ’ rather than ‘ redness ’ . |
| 30 | But they were not just pawns in the political game : students had their own ideas which will be addressed in this chapter on Chinese students in mid-1980s . |