Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] built [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were often built on top of a hill like an acropolis in Ancient Greece . |
| 2 | It was generally built on land assembled by the local authority . |
| 3 | Originally a wooden fortress , Hastings Castle was later built from stone shipped by the Normans from Caen in France . |
| 4 | Widely exported , it was also built under licence in Poland where a developed version was later produced as the PZL–101 Gawron . |
| 5 | It was built largely from bricks baked on the spot , though because it was also built in haste the kilns , designed to produce 100,000 bricks a year , could not always keep up and instead of bricks the masons settled for stones in the upper part of the walls . |
| 6 | The problem was exacerbated by the way gender inequality was often built into school management structures , and to some extent into the curriculum . |
| 7 | The mill was originally built for corn-milling . |
| 8 | The jail was originally built as part of William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 9 | This inconsistency is due to the fact that the bridge was originally built of timber in the last quarter of the thirteenth century , and the arches were dictated by the size of the oak beams used ; then in the fifteenth century , when the bridge was rebuilt in stone , the timber structure was used as scaffolding and the masonry erected round it , leaving the original wood enclosed within the stone piers and arches . |
| 10 | This continued until it was realized that the fairies objected to the site , and the church was then built on top of the hill , which satisfied the fairies . |