Example sentences of "sent to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 2 | An eight-year-old boy from Riseley with a club foot , and another eleven-year-old with serious hip disease , were transferred to an orthopaedic hospital , while the father of the latter , who probably had tuberculosis of the spine , was sent to a convalescent home at Margate with the consent of the governors , who provided the necessary funds . |
| 3 | Then when I was eight years old , I was sent to a co-educational school . |
| 4 | Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school . |
| 5 | If agreement could not be reached with a reporter on disputed material , it would be sent to a joint information bureau in Dhahran , and , if still unresolved , to the US Assistant Secretary of Defence responsible for public affairs . |
| 6 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 7 | The survey was based on a postal questionnaire sent to a representative sample of 2,000 members of staff and 200 retired staff . |
| 8 | The mailing will be sent to a small segment in late October , the bulk in early November and to another segment at the end of January . |
| 9 | Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School . |
| 10 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 11 | Stuart had been sent to a private school , his grandparents had paid , so that he was always under an obligation , do n't waste the opportunity , do n't let people down ; not like your father , was the implication . |
| 12 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
| 13 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 14 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
| 15 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
| 16 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
| 17 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 18 | TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |
| 19 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 20 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 21 | A TEENAGER who led police on a chase at speeds of up to 90mph through a built-up area was yesterday sent to a young offenders institution for two months . |
| 22 | Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years . |
| 23 | Hayman , a first offender , was sent to a young offenders institution for three years . |
| 24 | They are also sent to a second system , called the Kmart Information Network ( KIN ) . |
| 25 | When the exhibition finishes on March 7 several items will be sent to a prestigious London venue . |
| 26 | Another copy was sent to a Belgian huissier who delivered it to the Belgian respondent 20 days after the date of the judgment . |
| 27 | Finally I was sent to a neurological specialist who said it would be necessary to examine the top half of my spinal cord , which houses the motor for the body 's muscles . |
| 28 | The Land court in Offenburg ruled on May 7 that Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , who had attempted to assassinate Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was mentally unfit to stand trial ; he was sent to a closed psychiatric hospital . |
| 29 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |
| 30 | This does mean though that Blanche has to be sacrificed and so Blanche is sent to a mental asylum . |