Example sentences of "be taught the " in BNC.

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1 To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run .
2 When dogs have spent long periods living outside , they do n't know indoors from outdoors , and must be taught the difference .
3 Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness .
4 17.39 ( i ) Pupils should be taught the conventional ways of forming letter shapes , lower case and capitals , through purposeful guided practice in order to foster a comfortable and legible handwriting style .
5 They should be taught the names and order of the letters of the alphabet .
6 All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service .
7 William will be taught the old values of royal duty as well as being brought up in the modern world , mainly by his mother .
8 They will be taught the pastoral skills of counselling , work in hospitals , schools , prisons and parishes , and will be given practical experience in these fields .
9 On my visits to schools as a member of the Kingman Committee , I discovered that often the English department 's description of its syllabus would explicitly state that children should not be taught the definition of grammatical terms .
10 Similarly , a child might be taught the names of objects or colours when a generalised reinforcement — for example , ‘ That 's right ! ’ — consistently follows an utterance which names an object or the colour of an object .
11 They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable .
12 These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain .
13 Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days .
14 Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own .
15 Gradually , over a period of two or three months , he will be taught the basic elements of the art of kung fu .
16 They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus .
17 There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker .
18 Crews , here , were among the first in the country to be taught the additional medical skills that can save lives .
19 Likewise , all pupils will be taught the ‘ optional ’ skill of Writing , in addition to the compulsory skills of Listening , Speaking and Reading .
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