Example sentences of "[was/were] be built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 2 | We therefore put our name down to rent one of a group of new flats that were being built in the marketplace . |
| 3 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 4 | This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition . |
| 5 | Two centuries after Radovan , the cathedral at Šibenik , 50 km up the coast from Trogir , was being built under the guidance of Juraj Dalmatinac ( Georgius Mattei Dalmaticus ) , who was born in Zadar in the early fifteenth century . |