dean - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • faculty: In 1863 he became dean of the new science faculty at Lille University.
  • college: Let's also not be forgetting that the master of Hatfield is also dean of colleges.
  • school: On first glance, you might mistake him for the dean of a leading business school or perhaps even a kindly bank manager.
  • education: The work was overseen by the associate director and director of general practice education and the dean of postgraduate education.
  • study: In addition to writing, Lu worked as an editor, professor and dean of studies.
  • student: Academically, they could all be in trouble, as the officers will pass on their names to the dean of students.

Possessives

  • concern: Cruise on the of foodstuffs swinging dean's concern at.

Converse of object

  • appoint: There followed a period of gentle decline and decay with many bishops being more absent than present and several deans appointed from the laity.
  • become: He later became a dean of a British teachers ' college.
  • include: Widespread consultation on the document had taken place, including the deans of the faculties and heads of departments.

Adjective modifier

  • rural: The rural dean may be invited to attend the meeting of the PCC.
  • dental: Dr. Clive Gibson is deputy postgraduate dental dean in the West Midlands.
  • assistant: Maggie Jewett, the school's assistant dean, told The Associated Press staff members were outraged at the costume.
  • former: The guest of honor, a former dean of County, phoned in from Brussels airport this morning.
  • academic: Before being appointed as academic dean he spent twenty six years in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria.
  • medical: There is too little attention paid by medical school deans to improving teaching.

Noun used with modifier

  • postgraduate: A similar training record folder will also be kept by the postgraduate dean.
  • faculty: Bilateral discussions have taken place between him and faculty deans, who have been informed of the proposed capped salary figures for their faculty.
  • associate: Most have an associate dean whose job it is to advise overseas doctors.
  • school: There is too little attention paid by medical school deans to improving teaching.

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