Example sentences of "were built on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its former middle-class character was rapidly eroded as thousands of small houses were built on every available plot of land by speculative builders . |
| 2 | South of the Sahara , it was only in South Africa that stations were built on a European scale , and only there that stations were replaced by new and larger versions . |
| 3 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |
| 5 | During this period , fifty temples were built on a site of 200 square kilometres around the most prestigious of all , Angkor Wat . |
| 6 | In North Yorkshire many barrows were built on a fertile rich brown-earth soil , which only later developed into the poor heathland podsol soil which covers the moors today , and similar changes occurred on other uplands . |
| 7 | This aptly describes the houses in this book , which were built on the whole by country gentry , tradesmen and clergymen , on a moderate scale , rather than by the aristocracy , who liked to flaunt their aesthetic views and show how cultivated they were on a much larger one . |
| 8 | Handsome stations were built on the line eastwards from Colombo towards Galle because it was along that coast that lawyers and civil servants had their bungalows . |
| 9 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 10 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |
| 11 | In time , more elaborate structures were built on the lines , including mounds ( or ‘ tumuli ’ ) of earth and stone , ‘ burial chambers ’ and dolmens or cromlechs . |
| 12 | The wings were built on the Monospar principle with single bracing struts running to the upper fuselage longeron at a point where the bulkhead between the cockpit and passenger cabin could conveniently be located . |
| 13 | Shanty towns made of waste materials were built on the outskirts of cities , and bitterly called " Hoovervilles " . |
| 14 | Though stations were built on the main line west of Paddington after its opening in 1838 the initial suburban service was poor and the passenger receipts small . |
| 15 | Many were built on the edge of towns or cities and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 16 | All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours . |
| 17 | His famous Etruria works were built on the canal and the carriage costs of coal and raw materials from Liverpool , including the vital china clay shipped to the Mersey port from Cornwall , fell to a rate of 13s 4d ( 67p ) per ton compared with the old road carriage rate of £2 10s ( £2.50 ) . |
| 18 | Er the new towns that Hertfordshire were built on were built on the banks of moving skilled engineers out of West London . |
| 19 | All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family . |