How To Use Oxford In A Sentence
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Tina gained admittance to Oxford, says the book, after she attended a "crammer" school designed to help late-blooming students pass university entrance exams.
Tina 'Turner
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At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746.
Introductory Note
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The answer could be to remove the tonsils or adenoids, according to a study of 60 children in Oxford.
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It seems Oxford students really can achieve great things when they put their minds to it.
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Back in Oxford, he sat on the City Council, and began his lifelong activity of prison visiting.
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In truth, though, Oxford did not produce the hockey they are no doubt capable of in the second period.
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It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues.
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Oxford Limited intends to offer colleges the opportunity to sell the items directly through the JCRs at competitive prices.
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From this interesting height there are two views: one over the beautiful plains of Lancashire, another towards the brumous mountains of Oxfordshire.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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• Liz Chatterjee is a DPhil candidate in international development at the University of Oxford
Time to acknowledge the dirty truth behind community-led sanitation
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Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
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On the stroke of half time Oxford once again scythed through the shaky gold defence, hooker Andy Dalgleish supplying Bradshaw with the perfect pass to score his second of the evening.
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I was a modest, good - humoured boy; it is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience.
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Student welfare officers became concerned about the intensity of Life at oxford University, and in todays report they urge immediate action.
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His visit to a literary dinner in Oxford was the only public appearance in this country.
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The smash follows Thursday's chaos on the M40 in Oxfordshire when two people died in a 100-vehicle pile-up - the biggest multiple accident on the road for 10 years.
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He was making a living as a storekeeper in Oxford, and he had purchased a small farm a few miles outside of town.
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She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the homeless.
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Katie Charing, currently on a gap year, has been accepted into Somerville College, Oxford to study English.
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 'Ram of Amun' at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum In the current financial climate, it is a real coup to have completed this £5 million project, which comes two years after the big renovation of the museum in 2009.
More Beauty in Oxford
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So that one of his Oxford friends, as he traveled through Childrey, inquiring for his diversion of some of the people, Who was their minister, and how they liked him? received this answer: Our parson is one Mr. Pococke, a plain honest man.
A Reader's Manifesto
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Prepare a computer schedule for a typical working day when the systems described in 5.2.5 are available to Oxford University Press.
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Grammer School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was Hulme exhibitioner.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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An inquest was opened and adjourned at Oxford coroner's court.
The Sun
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She was reading for a degree of classical literature in Oxford when the war broke out.
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The plant, operated by Oxford Energy Co, will consume 10 million tyres a year.
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The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Week in Words
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The eliminationist project is in many ways the signature of fascism, partly because it proceeds naturally from fascism's embrace of what Oxford Brookes scholar Roger Griffin calls palingenesis, or a Phoenix-like national rebirth, as its core myth.
Crooks and Liars
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Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the graduand.
Life in the Medieval University
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His lectures to his students at Oxford were models of clear thinking and style.
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The Oxford based Phoenix Prison Trust is aiming to recruit prisoners to meditation using classes and a book of basic techniques.
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Two other Innes novels with partial Oxford settings are Stop Press and Operation Pax.
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The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have numerous endowments.
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Oxford, and then became what we call a pervert, and what I suppose they call a convert.
The Way We Live Now
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Removal expenses and travelling expenses in connection with the move to Oxford of the successful candidate are generally paid in full in appropriate cases.
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Various factors counted against Halley when he was an applicant in 1691 for the Savilian astronomy professorship at Oxford University.
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An honorary degree was conferred on him by Oxford University in 1995.
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And it -- the real genius of this group at Oxford, I think, was the multidiscipline approach that they took.
The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
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He came to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and studied law.
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No Tractarians proper are introduced: and this is noted in the advertisement: "No _proper_ representative is intended in this tale, of the religious opinions, which had lately so much influence in the University of Oxford.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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After an even third round, Oxford claimed the victory by a majority decision.
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But now some high-school students in Banbury, Oxfordshire, have interviewed a visitor from St. Helena and raised doubts about that conclusion.
How Old May You Be?
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Oxford UCCE women's cricket team began this season as they finished the last - with a comprehensive victory over their Cambridge rivals.
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In the same year of 1927 he was also elected to a fellowship at Queen's College Oxford.
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Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot.
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I think it needs more in the way of paraphrase and/or annotation, which I hope Oxford University Press's forthcoming version of Durr's book on the cantatas will provide.
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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He studied at Glasgow University and as a Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, Oxford.
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When the court moved to Oxford the king presented him with the wardenship of Merton College.
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Then a physician at Oxford University offered to include him in a test of a new piggyback device - an "axial flow pump" that pushes blood in a continuous stream (no pulse) through the heart's left ventricle and out into the body.
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As it was an ugly day, I didn't wear a sport coat and felt a bit underdressed, even though I had on slacks, an oxford shirt and sweater vest.
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He was educated at his local comprehensive school and then at Oxford.
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Eccentric chic is apparently all very now: think Oxford beanies, tricorn hats, feather boas and you get some idea of the serious lack of taste required.
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It has also been endorsed by the city planning authority in the context of the Oxford Local Plan Review 1991-2001.
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Refounded in 1602 on the site of the earlier university library, it has since 1604 borne by royal decree the name of the remarkable man whose endowment remains the greatest benefaction ever received by the University of Oxford.
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The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
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I had the divinest evening; Oxford meant so much to me ....
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Oxford has a lot to offer its visitors in the way of entertainment.
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The culmination of the exchange was a visit to Foxford by the German students and teachers recently.
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The current money is on Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who had the acceptable aristocratic and educational pedigree for the job -- presuming, that is, that you must practice falconry in order to write about it.
Who wrote Shakespeare? Author James Shapiro offers an answer.
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The Oxford English Dictionary, the Pedant's Bible, gives" franticness "as" The state or condition of being frantic ", so we don't have to see 'frenzy' as the noun and 'frantic' as the adjective, despite their common etymology, especially because we also have 'frenzical'.
Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United - as it happened
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As one of the few supposedly smart restaurants in Oxford the chances are you'll be able to see someone you know, or know of, on a date.
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This book is published by Oxford University Press.
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Thousands of desperate-looking bad-tempered people had descended on Oxford Street in general and Selfridges in particular and were swarming like so many mad bees looking for a so-called bargain.
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The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef".
How to cook perfect cullen skink
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But 2 have now been confiscated from foreign visitors after fights in Oxford in the past eleven days.
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This allowance was to be suspended during the absence from Oxford of any inferior bedel, whether occasioned by his own affairs or those of the University.
The Customs of Old England
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The Brookes keeper performs an acrobatic save to keep Oxford off the score sheet in what was a disappointing game for the home team
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And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte.
Wilde in the Stacks
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The college is open to visitors, but also to overnighters on a range of dates, including during The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
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Sri Owen, a London-based food writer, consultant and co-author of the forthcoming "Oxford Companion to Southeast Asian Food," fondly remembers the gado-gado of her university days: "We stopped at this place to have our gado-gado as a one-dish lunch before we cycled back to our boarding house.
The Dish: Gado-Gado
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford is a marvellous place for bibliophiles!
Literary Oxford: The Bodleian Library | The Creative Penn
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Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot.
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It's really shortened the shelf life," says Mr. Dalzell, who is considered to be a real "big noise," or a very important person, among word whizzes like Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary.
As Slang Changes More Rapidly, Expert Has to Watch His Language
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The Canadian Oxford Dictionary also lists garbage mitt—a new one on me—that is supposedly a heavily padded deerskin mitten favoured by garbage men.
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The gallery is off Oxford Circus, next door to a haberdasher's, established back in 1902.
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The great writer and scholar Iris Murdoch, addled and disoriented by advanced Alzheimer's Disease, ambles out of her Oxford house and into the city.
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A philologist at Oxford University, he was an expert in the study of the roots of the English language and its early literature.
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At Oxford he went in for scenes of dissipation, at Wilson's he was unruly, in Naples he had a mistress.
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I guess the Oxford English Dictionary cuts it more cleanly with a black and white approach.
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Oxford has developed antireflective coating technology to prevent glare from computer screens, tablets and smartphones.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had picked up the art of jollification at Oxford, entering ‘manfully into all their parties and scenes of dissipation.
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The Foxford Christmas Craft Fair will feature items such as basket making, woodcraft, fabric crafts, jewellery, candles, pottery, festival food, and lots more too numerous to mention.
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But the difference of age made no difference to the friendship which grew up between them in Oxford, a friendship only less enduring and close than that between Clough and Matthew Arnold, which has been "eternized," to use a word of Fulke Greville's, by the noble dirge of "Thyrsis.
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
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Crossing it on a moonlit winter's night lifted the heart, though that was often the trouble with Oxford - the architecture outsoared one's feelings, the sublime not always easy to match.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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But doesn't the combination of an Oxford academic workload and a Blue Boat training regime leave him socially detached from anyone outside the tiny rowing bubble?
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He had sold his parents ' house, and on the proceeds and the little income, he had managed to go to Oxford.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
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How the creature does this is unknown, but Mark Fricker of Oxford University, who is one of Dr Tero's colleagues, speculates that the forces generated by protoplasm pulsating back-and-forth through the multinuclear cell are interpreted and used to determine which routes to reinforce, and which connections to trim.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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The Oxford group consisted of two consultants, two fellows, three residents, and ten medical students.
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In 1998, she was made professor of Theatre Arts at Oxford and she is the chancellor of Stirling University.
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From the time he left Oxford he was acclaimed and backed by a small minority of passionate admirers whom I have called his fuglemen.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
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(that of Oxford donship undoubtedly is), but I can't tell you how antique it all seems.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916
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Walter Pater "gambolling," in the moonlight, on the velvet lawn of his own secluded Oxford garden, like a satin-pawed Wombat!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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From the restart after Loughborough kicked a penalty, Oxford worked the ball to left winger Adam Slade on the blind side, who wrong-footed the Loughborough defence to score.
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Pinpoint positional kicking was awarded with two further three pointers, and Oxford assumed a narrow lead.
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He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was rusticated.
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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We are pleased to note the overall Oxford triumph, sealed in thrilling fashion as Craig Heasman threw the winning dart to once again seal glory for the men and women of the Pelican.
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He had attended Eton and Oxford, two schools still acquainted with the study of classical antiquity, and it’s conceivable that in the media’s terms of endearment he recognized the debt owed to the very ancient Greeks, who allowed their sacred kings to rule in Thebes for a single triumphant year before putting them to death in order that their blood might fructify the crops and fields.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It
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Sheila enjoyed her years as a student in Oxford.
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He is Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford.
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Of course, Oxford can not - and should not - bulldoze its beautiful old buildings.
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In 1934 F.W. Bateson published his little book, English Poetry and the English Language (Oxford [1934], pp. 76-77), where he applied the term baroque even to Thomson,
BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
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What is your favourite tipple and where in Oxford do you drink it?
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Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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He delighted in the young and was assiduous in attendance at the Oxford Union, where he was senior librarian.
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He has had a distinguished career in dramatics, having been the first post-war President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and Governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and subsequently he achieved fame as Author, Playwright and Actor-Manager.
The British Council
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Back in Oxford, there's one more tradition to keep up, an early morning dip.
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Mr Newell was educated at Shrewsbury College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner and honorary Demy.
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In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
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‘Were you up at Oxford yourself?’ inquires a voice so precise it could only be an Oxford don's.
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A second consecutive defeat has severely dented Oxford's promotion hopes, despite the home side scoring an early goal.
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While I was in Oxford doing my Higher Education certificate I came into contact with soft drugs and participated in the taking of them.
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She's got a physics degree/a degree in physics from Oxford.
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Educated at Eton and Oxford, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as photography, gardening and horseracing.
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In fact it was rigged with what looked suspiciously like 10 year old and totally knackered Oxford gear!
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The indication that Oxford might have to consider implementing similar measures has been greeted with caution by University officials, dons, and students alike.
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If Edward Cowell hadn't been able to interest Edward FitzGerald in the study of the Persian language in 1852 and brought to FitzGerald's notice in 1856 a Persian manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, then FitzGerald would not have translated these ‘Epicurean tetrastichs by a Persian of the eleventh century’.
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Oxford Street is so clogged with London's signature double-decker buses — 300 passing every hour — that London Mayor Boris Johnson once called the sight "a panting wall of red metal.
Londoners Take Aim at Scourge of the Sidewalks
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A woman in Oxford said that her kidney transplant was abandoned because there were no hospital beds for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you look at past winners they have always been from Oxford and Cambridge so to be in that league is fantastic.
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Nottingham, however, proved unable to match Oxford's stamina, and, as they began to tire, Oxford piled on the pressure.
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Oxford is watching warily for a mumps outbreak as universities across the country see case after case.
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When I was a Rhodes scholar, I was in a very demanding academic program, trying to cram an extra year's worth of work into my time at Oxford.
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The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine cites elective operative mortality rates of five per cent, which means 95 per cent of patients survive and go on to lead a normal life.
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On Sunday the Times of London reported on a Republican attempt to use stylometry to affect tomorrow's US election: Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.
Stylometry for Fun and Profit
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It is at the gates of this College you are most likely to see another traditional Oxford sight a Bulldog (a university policeman or Proctor wearing a bowler hat.)
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We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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You can, of course, walk through the trees to watch the pleasure boats and barges negotiate the lock, but you might just prefer to stay tucked away by your tent listening to the soothing splish of the river slipping over the weir and gazing out over Oxfordshire fields.
The 10 best secluded campsites
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For reasons I shall not mention, by paths of descent I shall not describe, in the crown of my manhood and the prime of my devilishness in which Oxford renegades and racing younger sons had nothing on me, I found myself master and owner of a schooner so well known that she shall remain historically nameless.
THE PRINCESS
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But first to the Oxford Stadium, where a dangerous track sabotaged a night's speedway.
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This video has been put together by Oxfordshire ambulance service to warn young drivers of the dangers of getting behind the wheel.
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I was planning to go to Oxford, but really c'mon - this boy doesn't ‘do’ rain.
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Traditionally, windsocks are made from nylon ripstop, taffeta or oxford cloth, available in a variety of bright colors.
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But what were the surprise and alarm of the Earl of Oxford and his companions, when they came to that part of the camp which had been occupied the day before by Campo-Basso and his Italians, who, reckoning men-at-arms and Stradiots, amounted to nigh two thousand men — not a challenge was given — not a horse neighed — no steeds were seen at picquet — no guard on the camp.
Anne of Geierstein
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If you've been convoked, you've got a poetry voteAs the nominations for the Oxford professor of poetry close, the frontrunner and bookies 'favourite is the reclusive Geoffrey Hill.
A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick
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Further down Oxford Street we got a Victoria Line train from Bond Street to Euston.
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The author, historian, philosopher, management consultant, Oxford don and all-round brainbox doesn't do interviews.
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Amelia completed a DPhil in economics at Oxford and is currently chief economist at the Office of Fair Trading.
Caribou's Dan Snaith finds the formula for success with Swim
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Oxford says attainment at school is the single biggest barrier.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final score reflected the home team's dominance, although the Oxford athletes put on a good show and should be encouraged by their performances at such an early stage of the season.
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Below: A study in subdued femininity -- a tailored oxford cloth shirtwaist dress with a surprise: a hand crocheted butterfly lace collar.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
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The new finance minister was educated at Oxford and is as traditional as they come.
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You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway.
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She commutes from Oxford to London every day.
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↑ The term Zoroastrianism was first attested by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1874 in Archibald Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration, the well-known investment trust.
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She was reading for a degree of classical literature in Oxford when the war broke out.
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TITLE favourites Oxford opened their Conference account with a lucky penalty and wonder goal.
The Sun
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She has been offered a place to study politics and modern history at Oxford.
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As a student I lived in Oxford but was a frequent visitor to Belfast.
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For the sixth consecutive year, Oxford defeated Cambridge today in the annual boat race.
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Jeanette Orton from Oxfordshire has already undergone surgery to correct a defect in her right eye.
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The team spirit displayed by all on the Oxford teams was exemplary and manifested itself in the many great performances witnessed on the day.
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old.
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
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Nevertheless, his wealth and amiability gave him standing, he was chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pembroke College was refounded in his honour.
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When I was at Oxford, each one of us had responsibility for three or four families in our congregation, which we call a ward.
Forbes.com: News
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A good D-lock costs about 50 bux (kryptonite in north america, oxford in uk/ireland).
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He held the regius chair of Greek at Oxford for nearly 40 years and was master of Balliol College for more than 20 years.
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The therapist leaned over and tied a loose lace of her mannish Oxfords.
SORT OF RICH
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While still at the school, she was spotted in London's Oxford Street by a modelling agency scout, who decided her tall, slender frame and gamine features made her a natural choice to stalk the catwalk.
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Professor Jessica Rawson, warden of Merton College, said no able student should be deterred from applying to Oxford by financial concerns.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that "fool" in its usual sense is Middle English, from Old French, from Latin 'follis' meaning 'bellows or empty-headed person'.
July recipe: Gooseberry fool
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Educated at Westminster and Oriel College, Oxford, he was an early casualty of the Oxford movement.
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This is the man who broke off from a postgraduate thesis on Milton's religious poetry to enter the world of comedy and who now lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, a speech therapist whom he met while studying English at Oxford, and their three children.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'
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He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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She took Oxfordshire Health Authority to court, claiming excessive doses of radiation had crippled her.
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One eighth of Oxford's annual budget of ￡400m goes to the medical school.
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There are also many fossils of plesio-and pliosaurs, including the famous nearly complete articulated skeleton of a juvenile Liopleurodon ferox from the Oxford Clays from which many life-reconstructions are based but actually when I took a closer look I was under the strong impression that the intervertebral distance is too big and some tail vertebrae seems missing too...
Color Underwater
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The Oxford Chemistry Primers aim to cover important topics in organic chemistry.
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Elliott's mathematical life circulated round the twin foci of Oxford and London.
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Several minutes of disorder ensued, which included punch-ups and the Oxford goalkeeper apparently pinning a rather more bulky Warwick team member to the ground saying repeatedly ‘Who's my bitch now?’
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The thinking goes like this: with the job markets rendering many first degrees valueless, graduates from redbrick universities can come to Oxford to get their master's qualifications.
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She is at our constituency house in Oxfordshire and is stranded because of the solar-powered car.
Times, Sunday Times
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Co-op stores around Swindon have been running low on stock after a regional distribution warehouse in Oxford was flooded.
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At first glance, the New College Chapel looks like the many other churches and cathedrals that abound in Oxford.
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Oxford has a reputation for being inaccessible, but people don't realise how much it is doing to try to change that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford.
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Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving centre of service industries.
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Reply to Publicity Department, FREEPOST, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Or maybe they're just so drunk, they're under the misguided belief that Oxford Street is a daggy bohemian end of Kings Cross they've never encountered before.
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`If you'd read Greats up at Oxford, as I did, you'd find that Christian's scholarship was more within your intellectual reach.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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With the impatient imperiousness of an Oxfordshire schoolmarm, O'Donnell's Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, lectured, "The First Amendment, the First Amendment establishes ... that there is a separation of church and state that our courts and our laws must respect.
Dr. Jonathan David Farley: Witch's Brouhaha: Is Christine O'Donnell Right about the First Amendment, Mice and Men?
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He refused to be drawn into the ritualism which for many was the natural consequence of the Oxford movement, but supported the revival of Anglican monastic life, particularly for women.
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From cards to boats to horses, the townies of Oxford seemed only too willing to indulge the students in morally questionable pastimes.
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Canterbury workmates Brian Thomson and Allan Gemmell have won the two blade-shearing places in Shearing Sports New Zealand's team for the 14th Golden Shears World Championships in Wales this year after a dramatic last round of their qualifying series today at the Oxford A and P Show, west of Christchurch.
NZ On Screen
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I was in the lower sixth at the time and, as a girl in a northern comprehensive, I was actively discouraged by my teachers from making an Oxford application.
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D'oh!" has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, though they spell it "doh".
Pleased grunt
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The University was eager to point out that alcohol is banned from Oxford's streets.
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One of his legacies is the Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court.
Balkinization
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Just take a look at what Browne's wearing today: slim gray flannel trousers that stop several inches above sockless ankles; an unironed white oxford-cloth button-down shirt; a skinny gray tie, and a cashmere cardigan with varsity stripes on the sleeve.
SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM
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At Oxford he was a demy scholar and joint editor of the University magazine Isis.
Raiding the nursery
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Pre-race favourites, Oxford's two-year domination came to an abrupt end when a clash of blades four minutes into the race caused Oxford's bowman to lose his seat and Cambridge to take the lead.
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Oxford's social circle was far too liberal for her taste.
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She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine.
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He has a first-class honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford.
