Example sentences of "be built [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airstrip , with its unfriendly yellow cross that warned strange aircraft from landing , had been built across the curved flukes of the anchor , which otherwise seemed to be covered in low scrub , slash pine and sea-grape . |
| 2 | In the US the historic walls which had been built between the banking system and the savings and loans were breached without attention to the integrity of the financial system . |
| 3 | The house was more modern than she had expected — at a guess , she thought it must have been built between the wars . |
| 4 | This had been built during the American War when he toured England to rally support among Radical and Nonconformist circles for Lincoln 's armies . |
| 5 | It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling . |
| 6 | The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship , but Del Mar 's new stadium has been built without a roof . |
| 7 | The Panama Canal could not have been built without the help of Guppies . |
| 8 | And he admits to being impressed by new housing partnerships between the public and private sectors on projects which could not have been built without the co-operation of both parties . |
| 9 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 10 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 11 | A path has now been built under the arch of the bridge at the east end of Glasgow Green . |
| 12 | Over the centuries , a string of mills had been built along the Chelt , virtually all of them corn mills . |
| 13 | An oil pipeline links Milford Haven and Swansea and four new refineries have been built along the coast of Milford Haven . |
| 14 | It 's the dams and hydro-electric barrages which have been built along the Dnepr , down to the Black Sea . |
| 15 | For the first time , a mentally handicapped child has been built into a programme about normal people living in normal lives , rather than made the subject of a sensational film or documentary . |
| 16 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 17 | ( The asbestos had been built into the carriages to act as sound and heat insulation , but had of course later been found to be a health hazard . ) |
| 18 | Problems may have been built into the original design through the inadequate protection of timber from ground moisture , lack of ventilation or roof-slopes which were insufficiently steep to drain away all rainwater . |
| 19 | More recently , eel traps have been built into the systems of weirs and sluices of water-mills . |
| 20 | Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes . |
| 21 | The refrigerator has been built into the peninsula unit and has a three-star , deep-freeze section , defrosts automatically and uses up very little energy . |
| 22 | If , however , the market is able to absorb information about the risks attached to future cash flows from other sources , for example the work of financial analysts , then the role of qualification is marginalised to that of informing unsophisticated investors about risks , the knowledge of which has , unbeknown to them , already been built into the pricing of their securities , but which might possibly cause them to consider whether they should diversify their portfolio or change its composition . |
| 23 | Safety has been built into the design in the form of a clever three-way switching system . |
| 24 | If , on the contrary , there is a rigid internal separation between the roles of setting standards and meeting standards then conflict has been built into the system ( Klein , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 26 | Thirdly , I shall look at the understanding of the ‘ feminine ’ which has been built into the tradition . |
| 27 | Looking upwards , she saw that no window had yet been built into the end wall at the top of the stairs , and this lack of light helped to emphasize the Stygian gloom in which she stood . |
| 28 | ‘ Unfortunately , these pipes had been built into the concrete beneath the ice . |
| 29 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 30 | The structure appeared to have been built into the air , with scaffolding and support systems running up towards the sky . |