Example sentences of "built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she learns that a road is to be built through the wood her immediate thought is that Raintree must be saved . |
| 2 | One of the grander Neeld buildings on the estate is Leigh Delamere House , built as the rectory in the mid 19th century . |
| 3 | Built about 1490 , the gatehouse actually pre-dates the foundation of the college , having been built as the entrance to King 's Hall which together with another ancient establishment , Michaelhouse , was incorporated into Trinity when it was founded . |
| 4 | Reims is the richest and most glorious , as befits the cathedral built as the Coronation Church for the Kings of France . |
| 5 | Capitalist economy was not built as the result of an overall , collective , decision ; no one nor one group sat down and said ‘ we shall now proceed to build capitalism . ’ |
| 6 | Powick was built as the City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum for Worcester in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 7 | 1769 " It is agreed that a sufficient Dyke be built about the Church Yard of Killarow , on such Lyne as Shawfield with the Concurrence of Colin Campbell . |
| 8 | 1769 " It is agreed that a sufficient Dyke be built about the Church Yard of Killarow , on such Lyne as Shawfield with the Concurrence of Colin Campbell . |
| 9 | What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame . |
| 10 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 11 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 12 | Romania would import Iranian oil via its port of Constanza and then process it in refineries specially built for the purpose . |
| 13 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 14 | In 1927 , a district known as the Housewife Lane area was demolished as a slum clearance scheme and its population of 710 ( 152 families ) was moved to the Mount Pleasant Estate , a self-contained municipal housing estate which had been specially built for the purpose . |
| 15 | The Bach–Abel concerts moved in 1775 to the lavish Hanover Square rooms , specially built for the purpose with the financial assistance of Giovanni Gallini [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 17 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 18 | In Chapter 5 Ryan shows how her formula can be used as a " fiction automaton " , that is as " a machine built for the purpose of telling fiction from non-fiction " ( p. 80 ) . |
| 19 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 20 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 21 | When completed next autumn , the King 's Pool offices , being built for the Foss Development Corporation , will house 600 administration staff from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food . |
| 22 | He was offered a good job on a ship called the and she 's purpose built for the North sea after |
| 23 | In 1839 Kitson and Laird withdrew from this partnership and established the Airedale foundry , also in Leeds , whose first locomotives were built for the North Midland Railway in 1840 . |
| 24 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 25 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 26 | A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd 's size was never more than 100 . |
| 27 | It was Dromore Workhouse , a passenger told me , built for the relief of victims of the Potato Famine . |
| 28 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |
| 29 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 30 | Mar 's Work , remains of a Renaissance mansion built for the Earl of Mar , Regent of Scotland , with a heraldic panel above the gateway incorporating his coat of arms and those of James |