Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] built [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelves around him , which were built to the ceiling , were bowed beneath the weight of his trove . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Which were built in the wagon shops . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the coast where we turn right and inland to the village of São Vicente ( 116km ) there is a tiny chapel which was built into the rock beside the mouth of the river in 1692 . |
| 7 | Also in East Yorkshire are Goodmanham , which was built on the site of a pagan temple and Rudston , where the church is adjacent to the tallest standing stone in Britain . |
| 8 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | This was the west side of the house , which was built in the shape of an E without the middle prong . |
| 10 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 11 | Later , I found an empty hut , which was built against the wall of a small house . |