Example sentences of "[was/were] built [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wings were built on the Monospar principle with single bracing struts running to the upper fuselage longeron at a point where the bulkhead between the cockpit and passenger cabin could conveniently be located . |
| 2 | Houses were built at the street frontage , whilst the interiors of each square or chequer provided garden space . |
| 3 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 4 | C. For this new ‘ heavy ’ steel industry large works were built along the Don valley in its broader middle course , below the centre of Sheffield , in the districts of Attercliffe and Brightside . |
| 5 | Car 4 is one of two small cars — the other was 3 — which were built by the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Company , along with the larger 5 and 6 and trailers 9 and 10 . |
| 6 | The fifteen Marton Box cars 27–41 , which were built by the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for the opening of the Marton route , proved to have poor riding qualities on their four-wheeled truck . |
| 7 | As Eddie detailed in his review , although the first Voxes were designed and made over here , production switched in the later '60s to Italy , where the guitars were built in the Eko factory . |
| 8 | Wooden narrow-boats were built throughout the canal system . |
| 9 | Staveley Works station was built over the Chesterfield Canal , and served Hollingwood and the Stanton & Staveley works which generated a good deal of freight traffic . |
| 10 | Basler 's N96BF was built for the US Navy as R4D-5 ( C-47A-25DK equivalent ) BuNo 17223 and served with them until joining the French naval air arm — Aeronavale — in early 1964 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When foundations for the house were being dug — the house was built for the Marquis Litta in the sixteenth-century — Roman mosaics were discovered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This factory was built to the north east of the Church on a relatively confined site between the S.E. Railway and the river . |
| 15 | She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity . |
| 16 | A sports and community hall was built on the sports field . |
| 17 | For the writer of I Samuel , the story is to explain why the temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah . |
| 18 | At the same time maximum uncertainty was built into the party constitution with the introduction of eight vice-presidential posts . |
| 19 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 20 | Rosewell was built by the Lothian Coal Company to house miners . |
| 21 | In the High Street is the 18th. century Blanket hall , which was built by the Witney Blanket Weavers Company for weighing and measuring the locally made blankets . |
| 22 | Belfast Castle was built by the Donegall family on the slopes of their Deer Park . |
| 23 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 24 | One of these , cutting through the centre of the reserve , was built by the Bannach Timber Company , which exports mahogany to the UK . |
| 25 | Old Bradwell School was built by the Railway Company in 1896 as an Infants School with a certain amount of the building cost borne by the ratepayers . |
| 26 | This was the terminus of the railway from Funchal , and the Chalet-Restaurant Esplanade was built by the railway company , having been opened in 1912 . |
| 27 | It was built by the Midland Railway in 1870–5 as a third route to the North . |
| 28 | It was built by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co. to replace the ferry service across the river to Port Clarence and carries suspended cars below the gantry 160 feet above the river , to allow the passage of large vessels . |