Example sentences of "built a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Second World War , the FBI built a position of bureaucratic autonomy which lasted until the death in 1972 of J. Edgar Hoover , its director for almost fifty years . |
| 2 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 3 | The architects built a system of simulated streets in the air and presumably the people are supposed to play their part in making it all a success by playing in those streets , which measure three metres wide . |
| 4 | At Lincoln I built a structure of thought . ’ |
| 5 | Musetti built a bed of boxes the other side to break his fall . |
| 6 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 7 | Primitive Methodists , the most rural of the four leading denominations , built a total of 660 chapels between 1890 and 1901 and the average cost was £1 , 151. |
| 8 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 9 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 10 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 11 | As part of these works he built a number of fine masonry viaducts , such as those at Cefn and Chirk , as well as the Kingsland bridge over the Severn at Shrewsbury , then one of the largest single-span iron bridges in Britain . |
| 12 | Benedictine and , later , Cistercian , built a number of abbeys and churches . |
| 13 | The London , Brighton and South Coast Railway built a series of sedate two-storey Italianate villas along the Sussex coast . |
| 14 | The Great Western Railway built a series of French Renaissance style miniature châteaux with two or three flat-topped pavilion roofs decorated with intricate iron trellis-work . |
| 15 | Later he built a series of fine warehouses and laid out a dock estate . |
| 16 | The re-opening on March 24 celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harrison , the unsung genius who designed and built a series of chronometers 250 years ago . |
| 17 | Marx built a model of simple reproduction upon the following assumptions : |
| 18 | She found the finest clay , built a web of wires to spread it on , and sat breathless at her bench . |
| 19 | Many early investors built a bag of marbles , each well polished and each managed by a local team jealous of its independence . |