Sentence examples for ordinary boarding from inspiring English sources

Slowly you realise that Hailsham, with its vocabulary of euphemism and evasion - 'donors', 'completes', 'carers', 'possibles' - is no ordinary boarding school and its children are not even fully human, but the product of a scientific experiment, their lives preordained, the fate awaiting them desolating and monstrous.

Aria first realised it was no ordinary boarding school when her belongings were taken and she was strip-searched on entry.

Aria first realized it was no ordinary boarding school when her belongings were taken and she was strip-searched on entry.

Sue Hoyle, director of the Clore Leadership Programme, a charity developing strong leadership in the arts, argues that although the chair is an important role, we must not underestimate the contribution of ordinary board members to the running of an organisation.

Play an ordinary board game.

Of course, hers are no ordinary backgammon boards.

Not to mention the fun of knowing that calling the ordinary Gas Board telephone number would never elicit a reply if the thing went wrong: only a call to the number reserved for gas leaks would stand a chance of being answered.

The comparison study considers two reference prototypes made with gypsum plasterboards (GPB) and ordinary cement boards (OCB).

The MagicBoard is based on an ordinary white board which has been enhanced by a video-projector and a steerable camera.

One of the next steps in the project will be to miniaturize the technology further; so far, it's been built on bulky FPGA boards, but once the design is finalized it could be shrunk down onto an ordinary integrated circuit board.

That is where the 40 ordinary Americans on board should prove helpful.