Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grant-maintained
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
▪ My hon. Friend is right because many grant-maintained schools already have a high degree of support.
▪ A grant-maintained school could thus become smaller and, automatically, more selective.
▪ The number of grant-maintained schools could rise to up to 10 times the current 226.
▪ A further 45 grant-maintained schools are grammar schools and would be affected by Labour's plans to end 11-plus testing.
▪ Excluding grant-maintained schools, there are 61 secondary and 294 primary schools in the county.
status
▪ Another ballot will now be held to determine whether the 1,000-pupil comprehensive will obtain grant-maintained status or stay within Wirral local authority.
▪ I hope that, at the end of that procedure, there will be a majority in favour of grant-maintained status.
▪ Today, the Department approved grant-maintained status for five schools in wealthy, middle-class and less wealthy areas in that borough.
▪ I congratulate those schools on obtaining grant-maintained status.
▪ Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.
▪ Mr. Eggar Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status.
▪ What percentage of schools in Hampshire will have to achieve grant-maintained status for the local education authority to become redundant?
▪ He will be aware that the parents at the school voted by a ratio of nearly 3: 1 for grant-maintained status.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.
▪ I congratulate those schools on obtaining grant-maintained status.
▪ Mr. Eggar Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status.
▪ My hon. Friend is right because many grant-maintained schools already have a high degree of support.
▪ On 1 January 1990 a further two schools, both comprehensive, became grant-maintained.
▪ Probably the most important of our education reforms concerns grant-maintained status.
▪ Today, the Department approved grant-maintained status for five schools in wealthy, middle-class and less wealthy areas in that borough.
▪ What percentage of schools in Hampshire will have to achieve grant-maintained status for the local education authority to become redundant?