Example sentences of "[was/were] built [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 3 | Its former middle-class character was rapidly eroded as thousands of small houses were built on every available plot of land by speculative builders . |
| 4 | South of the Sahara , it was only in South Africa that stations were built on a European scale , and only there that stations were replaced by new and larger versions . |
| 5 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 6 | In North Yorkshire many barrows were built on a fertile rich brown-earth soil , which only later developed into the poor heathland podsol soil which covers the moors today , and similar changes occurred on other uplands . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours . |
| 11 | When the houses were built at the same time and |
| 12 | All Telford 's churches were built to a standard style , so when you see one you 'll recognise others , even if later alterations have added porches , changed windows into doors and such like . |
| 13 | It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort . |
| 14 | Ooh the they had er it we it were built as a proper music hall was that you know . |
| 15 | These colleges were built as an educational resource , meeting the needs of children during the school day and providing space ( and sometimes staff ) at other times for adult clubs and classes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 19 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 21 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 22 | Most Christian churches in Britain were built over the original sacred sites at these points . |
| 23 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 24 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 25 | Even more elaborately decorated wooden buildings with long agreeable verandas were built by the Southern Pacific at Shasta Springs , California . |
| 26 | Known at first as Pullmans , they were built by the English Electric Company at Preston , home of many Blackpool trams . |
| 27 | French grandiose schemes for the crossing of the Sahara came to nothing , but several lines from the coast to the interior of West Africa were built by the British and the French . |
| 28 | These were built by the United Electric Car Company of Preston , and were luxurious in comparison with the rest of the fleet , with their basket seats . |
| 29 | They were built by the Northern Rock Housing Trust in partnership with Middlesbrough council . |
| 30 | Many of them were built in a simple , elegant , almost standard form . |