Example sentences of "[was/were] educated at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Peerages are for those who control industry , politics and the media and who invariably were educated at the top public schools . |
| 2 | Their sons were educated at the school at one fifth of the fees normally charged , under a concessionary scheme . |
| 3 | In the relevant tax years , 1983–84 , 1984–85 and 1985–86 , children of one or more of the taxpayers were educated at the school on payment of the concessionary fees only . |
| 4 | A surgeon 's son , he was educated at the Dragon School , Oxford , St Paul 's School , London , Jesus College , Cambridge , and St Thomas 's Hospital , where he qualified in 1946 . |
| 5 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 6 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 7 | Fred Mitchell was born deaf without speech at Calshot Castle , Hampshire , in 1845 and was educated at the Old Kent Road Institution in London . |
| 8 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 9 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |
| 10 | Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 . |
| 11 | Born and brought up in Montmartre , he was educated at the Ecole Polonaise — an establishment described by Henri Babinski , another celebrated Franco-Polish cookery writer , as one of ferocious austerity — and subsequently at the Lycée Condorcet . |
| 12 | William 's second and eponymous son was educated at the School before transferring to Westminster and thence to Cambridge and a career in politics as leader of the Jacobite squires in the House of Commons ; his younger brother , Robert , went directly from School to Merton College , Oxford , and there pursued an academic career , becoming Vice Chancellor of that University . |
| 13 | His father was transferred to Birkenhead in 1898 , and between 1899 and 1907 Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute . |
| 14 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 15 | He was educated at the local parish school , the Miller Institution , later Thurso Academy , but little is known of his academic record . |
| 16 | Merrick was educated at the local board school in Syston Street , Leicester . |
| 17 | He was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Lancaster . |
| 18 | A Calvinistic Methodist , Ellis was educated at the British School , Llandderfel , and then at the grammar school in Bala . |
| 19 | Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth . |
| 20 | He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester ( 1883–5 ) , graduating with honours in drawing and science . |
| 21 | He was educated at the local grammar school and then Caius College , Cambridge , where he took his BA degree in 1665 , before embarking on a grand tour . |
| 22 | Crum Brown was educated at the Royal High School , Edinburgh , and Mill Hill School . |
| 23 | He was educated at the Royal School , Armagh , and graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in 1884 and from Trinity College , Dublin , in 1885 . |
| 24 | He was educated at the High School , Hampstead ; Cumming 's College , outside Boulogne ; Westcliff College , Ramsgate ; and Craven College , Highgate . |
| 25 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School , and studied medicine for one year at St Francis Xavier College , Bruges . |
| 26 | He was educated at the Liceo Dante and the Instituto Technico , Florence , and studied portrait painting in Paris , which he abandoned in 1888 to travel round the world . |
| 27 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |
| 28 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy ; Trinity College , Oxford ; and the University of Edinburgh . |
| 29 | He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution , Belfast . |
| 30 | He was educated at the Palace School , Enfield , before unenthusiastically joining the family firm . |