Example sentences of "built on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelling Hall was Maufe 's first country house , built on the daring ‘ Butterfly ’ plan , so called on account of its shape . |
| 2 | Chichester 's wealth was also built on the normal Sussex pattern of exporting wool and importing wine . |
| 3 | In Chile , British railway capital provided Valparaiso with a classical station , while Santiago 's Alameida Station was built on the broad Avenida Bernardo O'Higgins , linking the railway to independence heroes in a manner common throughout Latin America . |
| 4 | For example , a plain jacket built on the Scandinavian shape , basically a tube split up centre front , with a slit at each upper side edge for straight cast off edge sleeves , could have woven strip front fastenings . |
| 5 | A new idea was put forward in the spring of 1970 — that a new church should be built on the cleared site and that the 1954 church should be altered to become , first a dual-purpose building and then , when the new church had been completed , a church hall . |
| 6 | A new bus garage would then be built on the cleared site and would have to be ready for use by the time the trams in Croydon were abandoned . |
| 7 | Japan 's status as an economic superpower will shortly be marked at the International Monetary Fund and its surpluses , built on the voracious consumer , speak for themselves . |
| 8 | Equations such as ( 7.5 ) are built on the seminal work of Bonifacio and Lugiato { 6 } in 1978 . |
| 9 | A vast new Royal infirmary costing one hundred and forty million pounds is to be built on the Southern outskirts of the capital , to open in eight years time . |
| 10 | Built on the economic foundations of Keynesian economics and the social policy prescriptions of the Beveridge Report , the accord bridged the " reluctant collectivists " in the Conservative party ( George and Wilding 1976 ) , concerned with the survival and prosperity of capitalism , and the Fabian socialists in the Labour party trying to transform it from within . |
| 11 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 12 | But afterwards , as things got , there was erm a look out post built on the flat roof of one of the buildings at the factory and then er there used to be , when the sirens went , there 'd be look outs in this er observation post on top of the factory . |
| 13 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 14 | The surprisingly big houses were all built on the western side of the north-south shank of the anchor that was thick with palm trees and vivid with bright blue swimming pools . |
| 15 | Other churches in the area which have similar Byzantine characteristics also differ mainly from the Constantinople pattern by their ovoid domes , elongated and double curved pendentives , their Romanesque fenestration and arcading ; also these churches are built on the western style Latin cross plan . |
| 16 | They are built on the Byzantine pattern , in small scale , and have painted fresco decoration . |
| 17 | In any major key we have minor 7th chords built on the 2nd , 3rd and 6th degree of the key : ie. in G major we have Am7 ( II ) Bm7 ( III ) and Em7 ( VI ) . |
| 18 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |
| 19 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 20 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 21 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 22 | A short drive to the West is Clovelly , an extraordinary , quaint fishing village built on the steepest of cobbled streets running down to a tiny harbour . |
| 23 | The Co-op store would be built on the 8.2 acre site near the West Moor Nursing Home off Dixon 's Bank . |
| 24 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 25 | A modern ship yard , built on the hard work and the dedication of Tyneside workers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Sir Christopher 's farms were first built on the high and , in those days , bleak land , with as yet little protection from the wind , the farm buildings were arranged , as here at the Castle , around a courtyard at the back of the house . |
| 28 | All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours . |
| 29 | A water intake will be built on the Mediterranean coast near the settlement of Qatif , some 13 km north of the Sinai border . |
| 30 | It lies between the city of Hull and Withernsea and is built on the heavy clays of South Holderness . |