Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] build [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the same time maximum uncertainty was built into the party constitution with the introduction of eight vice-presidential posts . |
| 3 | The underframe was built in the Company 's shops at Euston . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | His dream was to build on the site a building by the Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe , which would also create a New York-style plaza , to be known as Mansion House Square . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 10 | In addition to these yards terraced cottages that were similar in size and appearance were built to the north of Mutton Lane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 14 | In spite of the great advance in knowledge , we made a grave error in assuming that the stone wall was built with the rampart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For example the original was built round the boiler , which had to bear structural stresses . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Venerable Bede wrote in 731 that the cathedral was built on the site of an earlier Roman church . |
| 20 | SITE : An undercover police station was built at the Palace |
| 21 | For those who reached the New World , a special station was built at the Castle Garden immigrant centre in New York where they entrained for the West . |
| 22 | At the end of the spacious triple-arched trainshed a heavily corniced three-storey frontage block was built at the head of twin flights of balustraded stairs rising to the entrance on the first floor . |
| 23 | For the writer of I Samuel , the story is to explain why the temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah . |
| 24 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 25 | The abbey was built at the time of transition from Romanesque to Gothic architecture , and its remains form an important element in Scotland 's architectural heritage . |
| 26 | The old abbey was built at the end of the twelfth century after a severe storm at sea . |
| 27 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 28 | Her cavity bed was built into the wall , like some ancient Roman grave . |
| 29 | Up until 1950 , when the first road was built into the town , the area depended on air transport for the main services into and out of the township . |
| 30 | Actually the church had no tower — it was matted on to the exterior and the interior was built in the studio . |