Sentence examples for be sat by from inspiring English sources

The aim is that this should be sat by the overwhelming majority.

New "supertests" to be sat by applicants for medical, veterinary and biomedical science courses at Oxford, Cambridge and University College London are being closely watched by other Russell group universities anxious to select the best A grade candidates.

Headteachers are demanding that the government pull a controversial test that is due to be sat by half a million children in two weeks' time after it was accidentally published online.

He said that he wanted the new exam to have the "rigour" of old O-levels and that he wanted it to be sat by "a majority of students".

The Department for Education (DfE) has introduced – along with five other new assessments – a spelling, punctuation and grammar test, affectionately known as Spag, to be sat by six- and seven-year-olds this May.

In a separate speech, the head of the government's exams watchdog said that the broad-brush and formulaic national tests now taken by all state-school students at the ages of seven, 11 and 14 are likely in future to be sat by a random sample of them enough to monitor school standards.

Today, I'm sat by a local reservoir, watching the gulls circling.

It had been prompted amid hundreds of complaints from headteachers after January's new exam, which was sat by about 22,500 pupils.

Lists of weaponry are intriguing when you're sat by the pool, but you can always just go for another dip.

The GCSE French pilot, a computerised exam rather than the customary pen and paper, was sat by nearly 11,000 students across the UK.

Ambiguous, I didn't reply; as we're sat by the ocean and I could make it anything you wanted, for this moment of speaking – but we have made it something forever.