Below you will find example sentences with "leaving cert". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Leaving Cert in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: leaving
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "leaving cert" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as ahead of leaving cert grades which, at the leaving cert level, year, students and results stand out.
Example types with leaving cert
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Can this Government pass the test of delivering fair Leaving Cert results? (12 words)
There’s a growing feeling among parents and students that the Leaving Cert should be cancelled. (16 words)
Victoria Kennefick said she feels very honoured to have her poem appear in the Leaving Cert exam. (17 words)
It’s important to note that this isn’t about matching previous Leaving Cert grades exactly to this year’s Leaving Cert students, but instead to ensure that the allocated marks given by teachers to students is in line with the general Leaving Cert trend. (45 words)
There have also been concerns that there will be a second “wave” of Covid-19 in the autumn, so, depending on when the Leaving Cert would be pushed back to, it could be cancelled or postponed again if there’s a surge in cases. (44 words)
It's entirely plausible that the first student is a student with a proclivity for Maths is studying Honours Maths, Physics and Applied Maths at the Leaving Cert level — and nails them all, without even studying History at the Leaving Cert level. (42 words)
Can this Government pass the test of delivering fair Leaving Cert results? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
It’s important to note that this isn’t about matching previous Leaving Cert grades exactly to this year’s Leaving Cert students, but instead to ensure that the allocated marks given by teachers to students is in line with the general Leaving Cert trend.
It's entirely plausible that the first student is a student with a proclivity for Maths is studying Honours Maths, Physics and Applied Maths at the Leaving Cert level — and nails them all, without even studying History at the Leaving Cert level.
He doesn’t have any Leaving Cert or Junior Cert classes on his books, but is trying to educate fifth year students using online technology called Microsoft Team.
Friday 10 March marked the last day of duty for the current batch of sixth years, ahead of them sitting their leaving cert in early summer.
It’s been confirmed three teenage girls who died when a car overturned in Clonmel yesterday evening, had gotten their leaving cert results only hours before.
Mr Smith said that for those who don’t achieve high points in the leaving cert necessary to qualify for the service, they are looking at an apprenticeship model.
The Big Idea is delivered through the Leaving Cert Applied (LCA) and Transition Year (TY) programmes, as well as an expanded pilot Youthreach and Community Training Centre (CTC) programme.
Victoria Kennefick said she feels very honoured to have her poem appear in the Leaving Cert exam.
Currently only 30% of students who study computer science for Leaving Cert are girls, and this gap only widens as they continue their career; just under 20% of programmers and software developers are women.
Students who are entering their fifth year this September can look forward to studying both Oscar-worthy flicks for their Leaving Cert in 2026.
AN 18-year-old influencer who has a massive 332,000 followers on a social media platform has just moved into Ireland’s first so-called TikTok house, where she picked up her Leaving Cert results earlier this week.
Ben Murphy, now aged 20, initially told gardaí that he was coming back from an all-night party to celebrate his Leaving Cert results.
Bridget, a Leaving Cert student, called in to make the point that the healthy portrayal of consent on the show was refreshing to see, and that the aim of the show is to be realistic, hence the title Normal People.
Can this Government pass the test of delivering fair Leaving Cert results?
It’s similar to the system adopted by the Irish government, which means there may be lessons for this country ahead of Leaving Cert grades which are to be awarded in the coming weeks.
Just after completing the Leaving Cert, the Leevale AC athlete took up a scholarship at the University of Michigan, later transferring to Florida State University.
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Education Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD has welcomed the decision of the Minister for Education to cancel this year's Leaving Cert exams, saying that the uncertainty and anxiety that students have faced has been unbearable.
THE LEAVING CERT is always touted as one of the more stressful experiences for Ireland’s teenagers but this year will go into the record books.
There have also been concerns that there will be a second “wave” of Covid-19 in the autumn, so, depending on when the Leaving Cert would be pushed back to, it could be cancelled or postponed again if there’s a surge in cases.
There’s a growing feeling among parents and students that the Leaving Cert should be cancelled.