Example sentences of "[was/were] built [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These were built primarily round the kin-group , and expanded by the making of bonds of maintenance and manrent , whereby lords and men offered one another protection and support , normally for life , sometimes in perpetuity .
2 But even that was a better success rate than among the nests that were built away from the colony .
3 Crash runways were built nearby for the bombers returning from missions in Europe , and Free French forces were billeted in the village .
4 Of three bases , which were built together into the city-wall hastily thrown up by Themistocles after the return from Salamis and which probably originally supported a single group of statues , two are carved in low relief .
5 In Australia the absence of population in the great central deserts ensured that the stations were built more for the benefit of the trains than for the nonexistent passengers and goods .
6 A group of fifty company houses known as Cammells Row were built close to the works on Chesterfield Road .
7 No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding .
8 Cupboards and shelves were built all round the room and concealed behind neat panels of canvas-covered wood , with touch-opening mechanisms so as not to break the continuity of the limited space .
9 This property was built right on the water 's edge in the pretty harbour of Malcesine , just 10 minutes walk from the cablecar station for the ride up Monte Baldo for the most stunning views .
10 This dry dock was built specially for the construction of the ship by Brunel ( q.v . ) .
11 MacNeill Weir in his guide says that about the year 1827 a large distillery was built close to the River Laggan at Mulindry .
12 The barn was built parallel to the ridge of the bank , being entered at high level on the uphill side .
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