Example sentences of "been founded in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchward was determined to provide Swindon works with the best and most modern plant and machinery possible , the works having been founded in 1842 by Brunel and ( Sir ) Daniel Gooch [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The New English Art Club had been founded in 1886 somewhat in defiance of the Royal Academy , and the Fitzroy Street Group was a dissatisfied breakaway from it . |
| 5 | Furious reform agitation spread from Birmingham , where Thomas Attwood 's " Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes of the People " had been founded in 1829 , to London and the south . |
| 6 | The Farrier and Naturalist had also been founded in 1828 and it too was critical of the College , but its style was one of personal attack on Coleman . |
| 7 | Eastwards are the ruins of the ancient Chapel of St Mary , reputed to have been founded in 911 AD ; bounded by the marram grass-covered sand dunes of Rattray Head . |
| 8 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 9 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 10 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 11 | The ULF had been founded in 1920 but remained a small organization affiliated to the Labour Party in 1934 on a membership of only three hundred . |
| 12 | C.B. Cox and A. E. Dyson also writing in 1968 , recall that Critical Quarterly had been founded in 1958 with the intention of opposing that kind of cultural " pessimism " associated with the sense of a " breakdown of classic humanism " of Steiner 's " after Auschwitz " thesis . |
| 13 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 14 | The Tunisian League of Human Rights ( LTDH ) , which had been founded in 1977 , ceased operation in mid-June , having failed to comply with a new law which required that all such associations should open up their membership to members of all political parties and which also banned office-holders in political parties from belonging to such private associations . |
| 15 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |