Example sentences of "[be] build [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling . |
| 2 | The Panama Canal could not have been built without the help of Guppies . |
| 3 | And he admits to being impressed by new housing partnerships between the public and private sectors on projects which could not have been built without the co-operation of both parties . |
| 4 | A path has now been built under the arch of the bridge at the east end of Glasgow Green . |
| 5 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 6 | An oil pipeline links Milford Haven and Swansea and four new refineries have been built along the coast of Milford Haven . |
| 7 | If , however , the market is able to absorb information about the risks attached to future cash flows from other sources , for example the work of financial analysts , then the role of qualification is marginalised to that of informing unsophisticated investors about risks , the knowledge of which has , unbeknown to them , already been built into the pricing of their securities , but which might possibly cause them to consider whether they should diversify their portfolio or change its composition . |
| 8 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |
| 9 | A glamorous restaurant and bar surround a central palm-fringed swimming pool , and three tennis courts have been built at the foot of Anchorage Hill . |
| 10 | The TOF-SARS system and the ion beam line with associated electronics has been built at the University of Houston . |
| 11 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 12 | A landing-stage has been built at the end of the path , but there is no boat , and on the far side stands a stone summerhouse , the door ajar . |
| 13 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 14 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 15 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 16 | Note too the Roman remains around the outside , the church having been built on the side of Roman Milan 's Hercules Baths , one of the last pagan works completed in the third-century before the city became Christian . |
| 17 | A geothermal plant , which converts steam and water heated by underground magma into power , has been built on the side of a live volcano at Pahoa . |
| 18 | ( WES ) It 's been built with the aid of experts — wheelchair users themselves . |
| 19 | It had been built in the depression of 1870 — when most villagers were out of work — by the Countess of Saracen , whose birthday was still celebrated , and a mass said for her soul in the local Church of St Peter . |
| 20 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 21 | The crematorium had been built in the park of a stately home with cultivated and wild parts , a lake and many mature trees . |
| 22 | Moon Beach Central had been built in the style of a temple . |
| 23 | Outside , a weather vane had been built in the lee of the vicarage next door , hardly an ideal position ; especially , when I discovered that its arrow pointer had been fixed to point in the direction of the ruined castle Blanchefort in the nearby mountains . |
| 24 | But by that time a grand station had already been built in the centre of Alexandria . |
| 25 | In Somerset ‘ the tops of trees and houses only appeared … as if , at the beginning of the world , townes had been built in the bottom of the sea ’ . |
| 26 | Flimsy metal rails and plastic counters jar with the handsome Neo-classical forms of the galleries ; large panels have been built in the entrance of the three main galleries , blocking the views and making them look smaller , and because space is at a premium , the paintings are sometimes crowded together . |
| 27 | The prestige enjoyed by many of our primary schools , the way in which they are valued by the parent body , has been built upon the work of teachers who have realised that they have a role both within the school and outside it . |
| 28 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |
| 29 | Parish Mill is thought to have been built around the beginning of the 18th century and , later in its life , formed part of the property of The Charity Trustees of Longhope . |
| 30 | A new terminal has been built alongside the Port of Dublin to receive gas pipes which eventually will be laid on the seabed between Ireland and Scotland . |