Example sentences of "be educated at the " in BNC.

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1 Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher .
9 William Agnew was born deaf in Glasgow , and at an early age was sent to be educated at the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , where he proved to be a remarkable scholar .
10 In November 1990 each of the applicants expressed a preference that his daughter should be educated at the school .
11 Therefore , there was no duty on the school to give effect to the applicants ' preferences that their daughters should be educated at the school .
12 Peerages are for those who control industry , politics and the media and who invariably were educated at the top public schools .
13 Their sons were educated at the school at one fifth of the fees normally charged , under a concessionary scheme .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University .
18 Fred Mitchell was born deaf without speech at Calshot Castle , Hampshire , in 1845 and was educated at the Old Kent Road Institution in London .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 His father was transferred to Birkenhead in 1898 , and between 1899 and 1907 Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute .
25 From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies .
26 He was educated at the local parish school , the Miller Institution , later Thurso Academy , but little is known of his academic record .
27 Merrick was educated at the local board school in Syston Street , Leicester .
28 He was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Lancaster .
29 A Calvinistic Methodist , Ellis was educated at the British School , Llandderfel , and then at the grammar school in Bala .
30 Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth .
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