Example sentences of "built [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court 's competence has been accepted to cover such matters as , for instance , Sunday trading , working hours , the equality of the sexes and whether or not a road should be built through the English countryside at Twyford Down in Hampshire . |
| 2 | Originally built as The Great Central Hotel to serve the railway terminal at Marylebone Station , it has been restored to its former glory at a cost of £75 million . |
| 3 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 4 | Apart from the Dome , built as the focal point for Hothampton ( a name rapidly forgotten ) little else remains , for little was built . |
| 5 | Each printer is built as the completed boards then join other components via assembly stations on the ever moving conveyer belt . |
| 6 | Each printer is built as the completed boards then join other components via assembly stations on the ever moving conveyer belt . |
| 7 | The remains include a section of the first church , of St Tecla , but are chiefly of a baptistery built about the same time . |
| 8 | Father Matthew was a genial fellow and cheerfully granted Athelstan 's request , giving him vestments and vessels so he could celebrate his own Mass in one of the small chantry chapels built off the main aisle . |
| 9 | To cut down disturbance during construction , the company says it would have a railway siding built off the main BR line . |
| 10 | It was the same in the Loire , at the Chateau de Chavigny , where the famous mirrored salon , built for the seventh baron de Chavigny , had been used as a shooting-gallery . |
| 11 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 12 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a question of physical make-up : black kids are built for the explosive events . |
| 14 | TWO of Walkers ' railcar power bogies built for the Great Northern Railway Company of Ireland ( No 's C2 and C3 ) and pictured in 1935 inside the Pagefield Works following final assembly . |
| 15 | ‘ Aerolite ’ , in York Museum , is a much rebuilt remnant of a loco built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 16 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 17 | Some of these are still in existence , and have resulted in flats being built for the elderly of the parish , and also housing for widows and daughters of clergymen . |
| 18 | PRESENTLY situated at Rothley , on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough , number 35025 ‘ Brocklebank Line ’ was one of 30 similar engines collectively known as the Merchant Navy class , built for the Southern Region of British Railways . |
| 19 | The church was built for the adjacent Ursuline convent which has an attractive courtyard to the right of the church . |
| 20 | Extra safety barriers and ramps will be installed at Meadowbank and a special platform will be built for the disabled . |
| 21 | The boats are specially built for the disabled . |
| 22 | Schemes include Enterprise 5 's transformation of the Old Customs House and Sailor 's Home on the New Quay into yuppie flats and , something which is quite bizarre , the redevelopment of the old Bell St Tenements on the fish quay , originally built for the poorest of the poor in the 1920s , as posh flats . |
| 23 | The SS Samtampa , built for the Second World War , ended its life near Porthcawl . |
| 24 | The church was built for the German Lutherans in Prague between 1611 and 1613 , after the Letter of Majesty ( 1609 ) ensured freedom of worship once more to all ( see p. 9 ) . |
| 25 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | Among contracts under investigation were those for work on Milan 's hospitals , metro extensions , the rebuilding of Linate and Malpensa airports , the construction of the San Siro football stadium , built for the 1990 World Cup , and the Piccolo theatre . |
| 28 | As we write , battles include a handsome Victorian set of stables in Enfield , Hertfordshire — a home for retired ponies which the local council wants to close ; Brocklesby railway station — a delightful example of a country station built for the local landlord but empty and decaying ; the grade II* listed Belgrave Chapel in Darwen , Lancashire , with its Gothic pinnacles dominating the town but under threat of demolition ; and the beautiful but overgrown park and gardens of Uffington in Lincolnshire , in danger of being smothered by executive homes , a golf club and a hotel . |
| 29 | Terraced housing was built for the imported workers , as there was no existing settlement here when the railway came — only farmland . |
| 30 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |