Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 2 | Similarly , mental hospitals were not built at the suggestion of psychiatrists , and psychiatrists have not been responsible as a profession for their run-down and closure . |
| 3 | 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers . |
| 4 | Victorian asylums were often built on the edge of towns and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 5 | The side chains were then built into the molecule . |
| 6 | The roadway was soon built with the help of a number of boys . |
| 7 | Capitalist economy was not built as the result of an overall , collective , decision ; no one nor one group sat down and said ‘ we shall now proceed to build capitalism . ’ |
| 8 | The basilican church was generally built over the burial place of the saint to whom it was dedicated . |
| 9 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 10 | The show was filmed entirely on location in Spain , where a 25-acre village was specially built for the purpose . |
| 11 | Thus the theatre was still built into the hillside , but the stage was constructed and the orchestral area curtailed . |
| 12 | A triple archway in white stone was also built across the entrance to the courtyard ; this is no improvement to the chateau but it is not , to be fair , quite disastrous either . |
| 13 | It was reportedly built from the ground up using a concept called Modifiability-by-Design to bend to the way businesses are actually run rather than forcing the user to adapt to the software . |
| 14 | At 6ft 1in Graham was ideally built for the job of goalkeeper . |