Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A neat stone arch and a flight of steps were built at the entrance and these have survived . |
| 2 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 3 | At the same time maximum uncertainty was built into the party constitution with the introduction of eight vice-presidential posts . |
| 4 | During the 1960s and early 1970s , a series of dams was built along the river as part of a massive irrigation system . |
| 5 | The underframe was built in the Company 's shops at Euston . |
| 6 | The Crystal Palace was built in the form of a cathedral ! |
| 7 | Some years ago , when the locomotive shed was closed at Keadby and engine power was concentrated at Frodingham , a pump-house was built beside the line to supply water to the new Frodingham locomotive depot . |
| 8 | Lines extended north and east along the coast , and branch lines were built in the interior to all the main plantation areas , for the cultivation of tea , after coffee had failed , developed dramatically between the 1880s and 1920s . |
| 9 | ‘ Alcudia has an old harbour , a very fine beach and the old village was built near the site of a Roman settlement — and there 's a museum . |
| 10 | The appearance of the car was modified when the new bogies raised it higher from the ground , a housing for the equipment was built within the tower , and tinted windscreen panels were fitted to protect the vision of a seated driver . |
| 11 | Preston Mill was built in the middle of the eighteenth century as a corn mill powered by a cast-iron waterwheel driven from a large millpond . |
| 12 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 13 | As Eddie detailed in his review , although the first Voxes were designed and made over here , production switched in the later '60s to Italy , where the guitars were built in the Eko factory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In addition to these yards terraced cottages that were similar in size and appearance were built to the north of Mutton Lane . |
| 16 | Inequality of life and expectations was built into the system . |
| 17 | In 1880 an orphanage was built at the side of the Hospício , and there is now a primary school housed in a separate building at the back . |
| 18 | In 1989 , historians and archaeologists using these new techniques discovered that Stamford was built on the site of an ancient geomantic earthwork representing a running bull . |
| 19 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 20 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 21 | Wooden narrow-boats were built throughout the canal system . |
| 22 | Special wall units with large panels were built for the occasion . |
| 23 | These Iron Age structures were built before the arrival of the Vikings ; but why they were built , or who their architects feared , remains a mystery to this day . |
| 24 | In spite of the great advance in knowledge , we made a grave error in assuming that the stone wall was built with the rampart . |
| 25 | The wall was built by the water authorities to secure the catchment area of the splendid Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs , and for many years marked the route of the annual Mourne Wall Walk , which followed the wall for much of its 22 mile circuit and was the only occasion when walkers could be seen on the hills en masse . |
| 26 | For example the original was built round the boiler , which had to bear structural stresses . |
| 27 | The front two pews were removed ; a raised platform was built for the Communion table and choir who now sit inside the new , straight Communion rail . |
| 28 | The timber-faced platform was built into the side of a cutting which truncated the small hillock lying between the BCR and the joint line . |
| 29 | The Venerable Bede wrote in 731 that the cathedral was built on the site of an earlier Roman church . |
| 30 | SITE : An undercover police station was built at the Palace |