Sentence examples for oxford from inspiring English sources

The seats extend beyond inner-city areas to include places such as Southampton, Oxford, Sherwood, Ipswich and Northampton.

He was a former advertising agency "suit", an Oxford history graduate recruited in the 50s when London establishment ad agencies recruited those kinds of people.

At Queen Mary, University of London, students must take off electronic watches, while at Oxford and Cambridge, students' watches are "subject to examination by invigilators".

Oxford Brooks is the only university to have adopted the GPA system so far.

With a bookish "young fogey" style already formed, he pressed on to Oxford, before heading home to be a reporter at the Aberdeen Press and Journal.

Oxford had been training for the Boat Race, which – along with the men's race – takes place on 11 April, when they got into trouble.

The Ukip leader later hit out at those with a worrying "anti-rich attitude" after one audience member held up a picture of a mansion belonging to Ukip donor and former treasurer Stuart Wheeler, who is an Eton and Oxford-educated ex-Conservative millionaire.

An Oxford University spokesperson said: "The university is robustly defending this application on all grounds and Ms Ramey's application has already been refused permission on the papers.

At the last election in 2010, Cameron – the first Tory leader since the 1960s to be educated at Eton college and Oxford University, an upper-class combination somewhat comparable to the Ivy League – successfully ousted Labour after 13 years of Blair and then Gordon Brown, but his 306 seats to Labour's 258 left him 20 short of an outright majority.

The divestment protestors however and particularly the students that are creating renewed furore at Oxford University, do have a next step.

Born as the son of the Dean of Windsor in East Knoyle, Wiltshire in 1632, Wren showed an early talent for mathematics and was appointed professor of astronomy at Gresham College in London in 1657 before taking the same role at Oxford University four years later.