Sabbatical

Converse of object

• offer: Plus, Inhouse Consulting offers sabbaticals for MBA or PhD programs.
• take: Some consultants even take sabbaticals or teach classes in an attempt to keep up.

Adjective modifier

• unpaid: Rivals freeze salaries and introduce unpaid sabbaticals for staff.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• take: The statement reads thus: " Mark Lanegan is taking a brief sabbatical from the ongoing Queens tour due to exhaustion.

Modifies a noun

• officer: The Guild is run by sabbatical officers who have been elected by students.
• leave: Include sabbatical leave under the primary purpose of the time, usually research.
• entitlement: Periods of unpaid leave will not be included in the calculation of the normal sabbatical entitlement.
• president: Homerton Union of Students is the only Cambridge college student union to have a sabbatical president.
• position: The Women's Officer sabbatical position was created in 1994.
• post: The election to all sabbatical posts is by secret ballot.

Modifying Another Word

• on: Trevor Thomas is on sabbatical from 1 st September to 30 th November 2006.
• short: He succeeds Fr Peter Brealey, who will be moving to Chertsey after a short sabbatical.
• long: Great for a year long sabbatical ( or longer ).

Used with adjective complement

• pay: Paid sabbatical leave Some organizations do provide paid sabbaticals.
• elect: Most of the work of the Committee is undertaken by volunteers, but we do employ an elected sabbatical to provide a coordinating function.

Preposition: in

• order: Giving staff a sabbatical in order to pursue qualifications or undertake voluntary work is another option that enlightened employers can consider.

Preposition: from

• work: So eventually I took a sabbatical from work, rented out my flat and went.
• teaching: Gillian plans to use the prize money to take a sabbatical from teaching in order to move more deeply into writing.

Preposition: for

• month: That is why the pastoral staff at JPC have sabbaticals for three months every seven years.
• teacher: Others include sabbaticals for experienced teachers in challenging schools; research opportunities, study visits and exchanges abroad.