Example sentences of "one [prep] the founders " in BNC.

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1 Mr Clout was one of the founders of the Rose Theatre Trust , which championed the preservation of the late Tudor theatre 's remains .
2 The new president was not Alexander Dubcek , spokesman of ‘ socialism with a human face ’ , but Vaclav Havel , one of the founders of the human-rights movement Charter 77 .
3 Austin Currie , one of the founders of the SDLP , wrote in the Belfast magazine ‘ Fortnight ’ of June 1987 :
4 In the first decade of the century the Rev. Richard Cecil ( 1748–1810 ) , a leading Evangelical preacher and one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society , had expressed doubt on this score :
5 I LEFT Ladislav near to the Staroměstské náměsti ( Old Town Square ) , to the north side of which stands the statue erected in 1915 on the five-hundredth anniversary of the burning for heresy of Jan Hus , one of the founders of the European radical tradition .
6 He is an art history graduate of the Courtauld Institute and was one of the founders of Prospect Tours , but now runs a company under his own name .
7 In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ .
8 The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery .
9 Albert Graf , one of the founders , is generally recognized as being the first breeder of the type we would know today .
10 The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 .
11 A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight .
12 Duke Kahanamoku was one of the founders of the first Hawaiian surf club , known as the Hui Nalu .
13 ‘ Tressell ’ is a moving tribute to the struggles of one of the founders of the modern labour movement .
14 The presentation was made at the Group 's Christmas meeting by Dr H. A. O. Hill , FRS , ( Oxford ) , one of the founders of the IBDG .
15 Apart from the fact that he moved among many of the leading artists of the day such as John Landseer father of Sir Edwin Landseer , Robert Hills ( 1769–1844 ) one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water colours , and John Glover ( 1769–1844 ) , we know little of his time there .
16 ‘ It was a mistake to try to go too fast , ’ says one of the founders , Richard Collings .
17 Patients of this sort were first discovered in the late 1940s by Dr Theron G. Randolph , one of the founders of clinical ecology in America , and they have been reported by many other doctors since .
18 To quote from a definitive article on the technology , written by one of the founders of the Intel Corp. for the 1977 special issue of Scientific American ,
19 He had been one of the founders of Lancashire Enterprise , started in the early 1980s by the controlling Labour Group on the county council , and financed by a 2p rate .
20 He sympathized with one of the Founders who had said that there must be ‘ no blood on the floor ’ , but blood was now clearly necessary .
21 Steve Riley , one of the Founders ' representatives on the Board , asked him to stay .
22 The same year , the society received thirteen massive Assyrian bas-reliefs from the palace of Sardanapalus in Nineveh c.650 B.C. from James Lenox ( one of the founders of the New York Public Library ) and in 1859–60 , the Society purchased a large collection of Egyptian art ( featuring several mummified bulls ) from British physician Dr Henry Abbott for $60,000 ( since 1937 , these have been at the Brooklyn Museum , which purchased them from Flemish the Historical Society in 1978 ) .
23 Thrasher ( 1927 ) , whom we encountered in Chapter 3 as one of the founders of a control perspective , borrowed Thomas 's ( 1923 ) speculations as the basis of his universal childhood needs of security , response , recognition and desire for new experiences .
24 The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 .
25 Boulder , Colorado is home to another new start-up , Kapre Software Inc , set up by a bunch of refugees from AS/400 applications house JD Edwards in company with one of the founders of Pyramid Technology Corp , Robert Kelley .
26 The crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media .
27 There will be no sections for the different media : the crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media .
28 That event had the imprimatur of no less a figure than Louis Aragon , one of the founders of the movement , who wrote an uncompromisingly surrealist preface for it in which he spoke of the rock candy sticks which ‘ emerge from the earth at every seismic shock ’ and toasted Félix Faure , the President of the French Republic who died , in 1899 , in the arms of a courtesan .
29 For one of the founders of the sociology of religion , Emile Durkheim , history showed beyond doubt that religion had come to embrace a progressively smaller sector of social life .
30 Bartlett , one of the founders of modern psychology , comments on the importance of relating a particular experience to other similar experiences :
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