Example sentences of "[be] built [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 2 | In the summer Henry James used to work in the ‘ Garden Room ’ which had been built apart from the house as a banqueting room . |
| 3 | Smaller levers had been built flush into the floor for them to manipulate with their rear feet . |
| 4 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 5 | A curing oven , the size of a car garage , has been built specially for the project . |
| 6 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 7 | It will have been one of the most comprehensively designed and tested lifeboats to have been built anywhere in the world . |
| 8 | The station resembled the early Earth Pioneer space stations which had been built outwards from the home planet to the stars . |
| 9 | This village had been built solely for the duration of the festival , for the thousands of funeral guests who were expected to arrive on foot from the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 10 | Another advantage of professional-style camcorders is that they are built longer in the body so that they can he supported on the shoulder — the operator 's hands are then left to steady the front end and operate the controls . |
| 11 | That space will revert to galleries , as soon as central kitchens for a new museum restaurant are built elsewhere in the Met . |
| 12 | Some viewfinders are built solidly into the camcorder body while others are adjustable to make it easier to take shots at awkward angles . |
| 13 | They are not corridors , as , of course , the exigencies of local traffic scarcely render that sort of coach desirable , but are built specially for the service between Watford and Euston , and Watford and Broad Street . |
| 14 | Future European arrangements can not be built simply on the promise that the Germans will now be ‘ European ’ , whatever that means , for the unification of that country creates problems which are more difficult to resolve . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most magnificent mansion to be built here at the turn of the century was Petwood : this by Lady Weighall . |
| 16 | Obviously , I understand that this course is to be built mainly for the benefit of the people who 'll buy the new houses , but it seems a pity that natural unspoilt countryside should be bulldozed to make way for what 's really just a few rich people 's pastime . ’ |
| 17 | An experimental wave power device is to be built offshore of the Dounreay nuclear site in Scotland . |
| 18 | Their main advantages are that they are relatively cheap , come in a wide range of sizes and styles , and can be built directly into the brickwork without the need for a sub-frame . |
| 19 | These steps can be built directly on the earth , bedding the paving materials in concrete to bind them together . |
| 20 | Purpose-built stadia generally followed from club success rather than being built speculatively in the hope of profit . |
| 21 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 22 | Erm during the course of the footings and flooring taking place , bricks have been ordered to come in where the walls are being built together with the joinery . |
| 23 | The Plan Transmanche accord signed between the central and regional governments in February 1986 recognised that the Tunnel was not being built specifically for the benefit of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and that supportive investment in infrastructure , education and training would be necessary to exploit its potential and overcome its adverse effects on the Channel ports . |
| 24 | These were built primarily round the kin-group , and expanded by the making of bonds of maintenance and manrent , whereby lords and men offered one another protection and support , normally for life , sometimes in perpetuity . |
| 25 | But even that was a better success rate than among the nests that were built away from the colony . |
| 26 | Of three bases , which were built together into the city-wall hastily thrown up by Themistocles after the return from Salamis and which probably originally supported a single group of statues , two are carved in low relief . |
| 27 | In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods . |
| 28 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 29 | Cupboards and shelves were built all round the room and concealed behind neat panels of canvas-covered wood , with touch-opening mechanisms so as not to break the continuity of the limited space . |
| 30 | This aim is most likely to be satisfied , in a way that will come nearest to meeting the varying needs of the students , if the distinction between the theoretical and the practical is built firmly into the curriculum , replacing , in the curricular structure , the distinction between arts and sciences . |