Example sentences of "[was/were] built [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 2 | Though stations were built on the main line west of Paddington after its opening in 1838 the initial suburban service was poor and the passenger receipts small . |
| 3 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |
| 4 | When the houses were built at the same time and |
| 5 | The anomalies revealed here are the direct result of ageist assumptions , which were built into the social security system at the outset and have been reinforced by successive governments . |
| 6 | Where these members were built into the original construction , such problems would be less likely , but the causes of defects and deterioration associated with bressummers should be identified , particularly if it is the intention to increase loads upon these elements . |
| 7 | They were built by the Northern Rock Housing Trust in partnership with Middlesbrough council . |
| 8 | In northern and central France several outstanding cathedrals were built in the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | The small number of new Elizabethan and Jacobean churches that were constructed were built in the Perpendicular style , and , in order to assert the continuity of medieval and Reformed churches , they retained the compartmentalized lay-out of the Gothic buildings . |
| 10 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 11 | Such blocks at Ostia were built in the Imperial period and housed a number of people . |
| 12 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 13 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 14 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 15 | The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 . |
| 16 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 17 | Some of the worst estates are n't the oldest , they were built in the fifties rush . |
| 18 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
| 19 | Causing particular concern are a generation of pressurised-water reactors ( PWRs ) , known as VVERs , which were built throughout the Eastern bloc during the 1970s . |
| 20 | Behind this colonnade shops and offices were built against the rear wall . |
| 21 | As it was on such a steep gradient , a large basement was built under the rear end to give a level floor for the tracks . |
| 22 | Coach 1622 was built under the last lot on the diagram . |
| 23 | On the hillside above is the Pico Fort ( Castelo de São João de Pico ) which was built during the Spanish occupation . |
| 24 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 25 | This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 . |
| 26 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |
| 27 | The lower part of the corps de logis on the southern or river side was built at the same time as the keep , but later raised , when a northern wing was added to it . |
| 28 | Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art . |
| 29 | The railway between Pointe Noire and Brazzaville , for instance , was built with the forced labour of 127,250 men between 1921 and 1932 — 10,200 of whom died in the process . |
| 30 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |