Example sentences of "[was/were] admitted to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all .
2 Although 68 patients were admitted to the trial five were subsequently withdrawn from further analysis .
3 Ninety three patients fulfilled the entry criteria ( see below ) and were admitted to the trial .
4 The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city .
5 The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft .
6 Early on , however , the forerunner of the modern House of Lords emerged from the Council around the monarch and it is now over seven centuries since commoners of England ( albeit of no more lowly status than the county squirearchy ) were admitted to the Parliament of England .
7 I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England .
8 Only the baptized were admitted to the thanksgiving ( eucharistia ) .
9 She turned the key in the lock ; the heavy door swung open and she and her family were admitted to the house .
10 During the same period over 303,200 people were admitted to the party , which had some 2,155,000 members .
11 Corporate members ( both domestic and foreign ) were admitted to the Stock Exchange .
12 He went on to play in all 42 League games that season and helped the club to finish in a respectable third position but , statistically at least , his best season with the Palace was 1920–21 when , along with all the other Southern League clubs , we were admitted to the Football League — and promptly won the newly-formed 3rd Division at the first time of asking !
13 The three states were admitted to the Conference and Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) on Sept. 10 and to the United Nations on Sept. 17 [ see p. 38458 ] .
14 From mid-day the general public were admitted to the site for the first time , and although publicity had been kept to a relatively low key , several hundred visitors attended .
15 However , when presently the knights were admitted to the castle , it was to find Moray and the High Steward themselves therein .
16 The data from 256 children were evaluated ; 209 were admitted to the hospital .
17 Those who were admitted to the meeting had been vetted and no trouble was expected .
18 Rather like the three-headed CERBERUS who guarded HADES , the Devourer attended MAAT , the Egyptian goddess of Truth , who assessed the dead before they were admitted to the afterlife .
19 In the autumn of 1811 a young woman named Mary Flint was admitted to the infirmary after she had been savagely beaten by a man named John Field , in whose house she was a servant .
20 While Yeats was away in Ireland , the patient was admitted to the infirmary where she came under the care of John Pulley , who did n't believe the story .
21 Instead of being educated at Christ 's Hospital in London , where his father had secured a nomination for him , he was admitted to the Asylum for deaf and dumb children in the Old Kent Road , London .
22 When , eventually , he was admitted to the presence of the Chairman he would have perhaps fifteen minutes to explain himself .
23 Georgia was admitted to the North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NAC ) on April 15 as the group 's 36th member .
24 He took the University of London Matriculation Examination in 1932 , obtaining credits or better in every subject , while still at school , as a result of which he was admitted to the University , where despite enormous handicaps , he gained a Honours B.Sc. , followed by the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in science and geology .
25 She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams .
26 Later that year , he was admitted to the Academy run by the Board of Trustees of Edinburgh after proving his skill in competition with other artists .
27 In February 1991 Czechoslovakia was admitted to the Council of Europe and continued to negotiate an association agreement with the European Communities as a prelude to full membership .
28 He was admitted to the degree of D.Litt. on two occasions ( Wales 1934 , Oxford 1937 ) and to the degree of honorary LLD by the University of Wales .
29 The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 .
30 When Malaysia was admitted to the Security Council of the UN in December 1964 , Sukarno played his last card : he took Indonesia out of the UN , declaring ( in words made familiar by Hitler ) ‘ our patience has come to an end ’ .
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