Example sentences of "[was/were] built [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were built by the Northern Rock Housing Trust in partnership with Middlesbrough council . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Such blocks at Ostia were built in the Imperial period and housed a number of people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Causing particular concern are a generation of pressurised-water reactors ( PWRs ) , known as VVERs , which were built throughout the Eastern bloc during the 1970s . |
| 11 | Behind this colonnade shops and offices were built against the rear wall . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the hillside above is the Pico Fort ( Castelo de São João de Pico ) which was built during the Spanish occupation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 . |
| 16 | Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |
| 19 | Never again , because Iraq 's military might was built with the active encouragement of some western powers , while many others turned a conveniently blind eye to their arms merchants ' activities . |
| 20 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 21 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 22 | The present church was built on the opposite side of the road in 1814 and was originally a very plain structure with a square tower at the west end . |
| 23 | The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century . |
| 24 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 25 | Einstein introduced a new " antigravity " force , which , unlike other forces , did not come from any particular source , but was built into the very fabric of space-time . |
| 26 | Here , as elsewhere , heterodoxy was built into the whole conception , as Nietzsche intimated in the letter to Rohde : " I 'm afraid it wo n't look philological ; but who can go against his own nature ? " |
| 27 | Some years ago a man-hole was built behind the retaining wall . |
| 28 | The economy and culture of Egypt since before the pharaohs was built upon the annual flooding of the Nile ; upon the rains that fall in Ethiopia between August and November , and then flow north , through the Sahara , for 2400 km to the Mediterranean . |
| 29 | This may have had something to do with the fact that the theatre , a lean-to affair of wood and canvas , was built against the ruined wall of the Bishop 's Palace next to Glasgow Cathedral . |
| 30 | Through his assistance our house was built in the traditional manner , and we learned that what had first seemed simply a glorified jungle treehouse actually contained remarkable hidden know-how . |