Example sentences of "at a university " in BNC.

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1 The girls then settle to tell a story : of a lady called Ai nt Baby , born with no parents and no name , and raised by her own efforts to local prominence as a midwife ; of Ai nt Baby 's daughter Candy , product of a night of casual lust with a passing drifter , and of Candy 's haphazard rise to an academic doctorate at a university in the liberal north .
2 It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are .
3 At a university the meaning of those terms is crucially qualified .
4 She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university .
5 To earn full grant-aid the student attendance requirement of 66% of the possible total was continued as was that for written work at a university honours course standard .
6 Instead of returning to Australia , he took a post at a university on the south coast of England , where he has been ever since , now occupying a personal Chair .
7 Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain .
8 For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years .
9 The third year is an intercalary year in which students undertake an approved programme of study at a university in the United States .
10 Coleridge wished to study at a university ; he went to Ratzeburg and Göttingen , enjoying himself immensely , and stayed till July 1799 .
11 ‘ It 's the first time I have taught at a university .
12 The hoaxers set fire to paper underneath a smoke alarm at a university three miles away .
13 A scholarship , exhibition etc held by a person receiving full-time instruction at a university , college , school or other educational establishment is exempt from income tax under s 331 , TA 1988 .
14 Inland Revenue Statement of Practice , SP 4/86 , extends the spirit of this section to cover payments made by employers to employees for periods of attendance on a full-time educational course , including a ‘ sandwich ’ course at a university , technical college or similar educational establishment .
15 His father , a well-to-do fish merchant in Fraserburgh , had no idea of a student 's expenses at a university like Aberdeen .
16 German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April .
17 Here the campus is king and no breath of doubt is admitted that time spent at a university is the decisive influence on life , even if the claims of life take one willingly , even defiantly , out of universities forever .
18 Preston was one of the few male friends William had who did not teach at a university .
19 This section will look at the way in which physics is constructed as a discipline by briefly contrasting the views of two university lecturers , one at B university , and one at A university .
20 Civil Service Commission which would conduct examinations for men in two age groups , 19 to 25 and 17 to 21 , the one on the level of final examinations at a university , the other at approximately school-leaving standards .
21 1.3. b ( iv ) Of the 22 courses listed of less than a week , across all institutions , only one ( at a University ) was language related .
22 It never crossed my mind to wear ‘ slacks ’ at a university in the late 1950s , still less that a girl could go to one of the ancient Oxbridge men 's colleges .
23 ’ This fragment from the dead planet Ichael , ’ Posi then added , ’ is part of a nearly forgotten data package held at a university on Quarley 's World , a planet located on the Rim Beyond the Rim ’ .
24 Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions .
25 Are you one of 1800 graduates and HNDs who completed a relevant course in 1989 at a university , polytechnic or college ?
26 It builds a sort of dedication , a work ethic , which is valuable at a university or a polytechnic .
27 Students combining Latin with a modern language usually spend their third year studying Latin at a university in the appropriate country .
28 In the third year , honours students with German as their major subject spend a minimum of eight months in a German-speaking country , either as a student , or as a part-time assistant in a school , or , if they are taking a joint degree , most probably attending courses at a university .
29 The third year of the course is spent following European Studies courses at a university in the country whose language is being studied .
30 Japanese honours students spend their third year studying at a university in Japan .
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