Example sentences of "be educated at " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 2 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 3 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 4 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 5 | Having been educated at Summerhill herself , I should imagine that these are the only areas of activity in which Zoe has much competence . |
| 6 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 7 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 8 | Mr. Barron works as a quantity surveyor , having been educated at Sandbach School and on an RAF Flying Scholarship . |
| 9 | In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend . |
| 10 | Bromhead had been educated at the private school for the deaf in Rugby and was a fluent writer and reader of German , French and Latin . |
| 11 | He was not the only deaf person connected with the legal profession for Wakefield , Yorkshire , had a fully practising solicitor , Gerald Smith , of the firm Beaumont , Smith and Beaumont , who had been educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . |
| 12 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 13 | William Pitt the Elder [ later Earl of Chatham ] had been educated at Eton and Oxford before briefly serving in the cavalry and entering Parliament , for the ‘ rotten borough ’ of Old Sarum . |
| 14 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 15 | Which Labour MP lost a libel action against the Observer partly because he 'd been educated at Berkhamsted School ? |
| 16 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 17 | He is also sure that she has hardly been educated at all . |
| 18 | John Leacock had been educated at Christ 's Hospital in London and been apprenticed to a firm of British merchants in the island , Catanach & Murdoch . |
| 19 | He had been educated at Eton College so had an excellent command of English . |
| 20 | He liked Rebecque , a Dutchman who , like his Prince , had been educated at Eton and Oxford . |
| 21 | Both men were typical members of the new class of civil servants , who had been educated at university and styled themselves " master " . |
| 22 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 23 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 24 | He had been educated at a progressive , artistic school in the south , with a radical tradition very different ( despite its ostensible similarities ) from the one in which Alix had been reared . |
| 25 | He too had been educated at Stowe — although he was three years older — and like Branson he turned an understanding of Sixties culture to profitable advantage . |
| 26 | Set , like many of her titles , in a fictional Irish village , it tells the stories of eight children who have been educated at the village school and who have carved their names on the beech tree standing by the school house . |
| 27 | He succeeded to his barony as a minor in July 1742 and may have been educated at the English Jesuit College at St Omer in France . |
| 28 | His two sons had already been educated at Pocklington when Yarm opened as a result of efforts by a handful of parents whose enterprise he describes as ‘ the boldest thing I have ever known . ’ |
| 29 | who would have been educated at home by her mother . |
| 30 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |