Example sentences of "[was/were] build [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mast or stave churches of Norway are now unique in Europe and were built during the whole of the Middle Ages from the eleventh century to the Reformation , after which timber churches based on the Eastern European pattern were more usual . |
| 2 | Many were built on the edge of towns or cities and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 3 | This aptly describes the houses in this book , which were built on the whole by country gentry , tradesmen and clergymen , on a moderate scale , rather than by the aristocracy , who liked to flaunt their aesthetic views and show how cultivated they were on a much larger one . |
| 4 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 5 | These two vehicles were built at the turn of the century for the Zillertalbahn a line in the Austrian Tyrol , and were donated in 1968 . |
| 6 | ‘ Many of the first colonies were built at the expense of societies the settlers did n't understand because their cultures varied from Earth basic , ’ she said . |
| 7 | In addition to these yards terraced cottages that were similar in size and appearance were built to the north of Mutton Lane . |
| 8 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 9 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 10 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 11 | Where the barn adjoined the dwelling it is called a laithe house , and often the stable and cow-house were built beyond the barn as part of the same range . |
| 12 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 13 | It was in this time that the Hall was demolished and farms were built following the enclosure of the open fields . |
| 14 | Tithe barns were built by the Church for the exploitation of peasant labour , the peasants being obliged to submit to the Church one tenth of all they produced . |
| 15 | The temple was important in Etruscan life and temples were built in the centre of towns . |
| 16 | Lines extended north and east along the coast , and branch lines were built in the interior to all the main plantation areas , for the cultivation of tea , after coffee had failed , developed dramatically between the 1880s and 1920s . |
| 17 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 18 | Many Roman villas were built in the form of a rectangle — buildings on three sides and a wall on the fourth . |
| 19 | These were built after the earthquake of 1305 . |
| 20 | Many of these were built before the use of RSJs and have therefore yielded substantial quantities of high grade structural timber such as pitch pine ; possibly even some of the old Archangel white . |
| 21 | These Iron Age structures were built before the arrival of the Vikings ; but why they were built , or who their architects feared , remains a mystery to this day . |
| 22 | They were built around the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Temporary booking-offices , thatched and constructed of railway sleepers , were built near the site of the mela itself to sell tickets to returning pilgrims . |
| 24 | From this same quarry the longest bridge in Cornwall was built across the Camel at Wadebridge in 1485 , and it is still going strong . |
| 25 | It was built under the superintendence of Mr Wright , the Chief of the Company 's carriage department ; and the interior was fitted up by Messrs Gillow , eminent upholsterers of Oxford Street . |
| 26 | During the 1960s and early 1970s , a series of dams was built along the river as part of a massive irrigation system . |
| 27 | In the 1860s a line was built along the path of the old moat and then out to the new dock at Neufahrwasser ( Nowy Port ) , and ten years later a second branch line went on up the coast to Koszalin . |
| 28 | Professional 's ZS-LYW was built for the USAAF as C-47B-1-DK 43–48541 and joined the RAF as Dakota IV KJ863 in August 1944 before joining the nascent Pakistan Air Force ( as H-713 ) sometime in 1947/1948 . |
| 29 | ‘ Monpazier , in fact , was built for the King of England , Edward the First , and one of its hotels is even named for him . ’ |
| 30 | A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd 's size was never more than 100 . |