Example sentences of "founded in [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |
| 2 | This journal was founded in 1965 by the geological societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow , each of which had published their own series of Transactions in previous years . |
| 3 | Founded in 1893 with the American feminist Lillian Harman as president , it worked to liberalize the law and educate public opinion towards freedom in sexual relationships . |
| 4 | A medieval merchant city , unlike any other in Ireland , it had been founded in 1232 by a Norman knight , Richard de Burgo , at the mouth of the River Corrib , facing the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 5 | We were founded in 1954 as the Atomic Energy Authority to manage the development of nuclear power in Britain , a role which produced a breadth and depth of technical capability as relevant to the Process industries as to nuclear power generation . |
| 6 | The SPCA was founded in 1824 by a little-known London clergyman , Arthur Broome . |
| 7 | Widmer said he hoped to sell Brabham , founded in 1962 by the Australian triple world champion driver Jack Brabham , by the end of the year . |
| 8 | THE sports and leisure company founded in 1980 by the former tennis international , David Lloyd , is planning a March flotation expected to capitalise it at more than £50 million . |
| 9 | The settlement of Toynbee Hall in the East End of London was founded in 1884 by the Christian socialist Samuel Barnett . |
| 10 | Founded in 1759 upon the highest standards of design , craftsmanship and quality , the company continues to uphold these essential factors in maintaining its leading position throughout the markets of the world . |
| 11 | A fine example of this type of abbey church is that at Løgumkloster , founded in 1173 by the Cistercian Order . |
| 12 | During the 1990 Cologne Art Fair we initiated a programme to help the Museum of Gotha at Schloss Friedenstein in Thuringia , founded in 1647 as a private collection of the Count of Sachsen-Gotha , which contains antiquities and Northern European painting and sculpture from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries , but no twentieth-century works . |
| 13 | founded in 1652 as a cossack zimove to collect yasak from the Buryats and Tungus ( Evenkis ) , in 1661 it was rebuilt into an ostrog . |
| 14 | Browning-Ferris evolved from a small waste-collection firm called American Refuse Systems , founded in 1967 with a single truck in Houston . |
| 15 | The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance , comprising the USSR , Poland , the GDR , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Bulgaria , was founded in 1949 as a diplomatic counterweight to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation ( OEEC ) and as a multilateral forum for containing the effects of Titoism . |
| 16 | In 1785 the directors of the Bank of San Carlos ( founded in 1782 as the first national bank of Spain and in itself an indication of a new spirit ) could report in glowing terms . |
| 17 | Founded in 1906 as the Agrarian League ( ML ) and renamed in 1965 , it was traditionally strongest among farmers and in the centre and north of the country , but owed its 1991 success largely to a breakthrough in the southern cities . |
| 18 | A fourth , dominated by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Socialist League , a body founded in 1932 by a large minority group of the Independent Labour Party which refused to leave the Labour Party , favoured a ‘ united front ’ with the Communists against fascists . |
| 19 | The Centre for Speech Technology Research ( CSTR ) was founded in 1984 as a collaborative research institute for speech-based work on the human/computer interface . |