Example sentences of "[was/were] built [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many new castles were built during this period , particularly in the north . |
| 2 | Empires were built on this use of language . |
| 3 | Feminist purity campaigns were built on this contradiction . |
| 4 | Some of Britain 's most illustrious ships were built at this yard . |
| 5 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |
| 6 | The use of timber frame in house building quadrupled in the 1970s and nearly half a million houses were built by this method . |
| 7 | As rather over 5,000 gliders were built in this country it was not possible for ‘ experts ’ to inspect them all continually so Mark Pryor issued instructions that he should be informed if they stank . |
| 8 | Some of the earliest charcoal blast furnaces in England were built in this vicinity , where iron ore was mined on the edge of the Shropshire coalfield , and the trees provided charcoal for smelting . |
| 9 | As a result , a number of fortified stations were built in this period of nervousness . |
| 10 | Huge tenement factories of brick were built in this area in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , and here they flank the whole length of the road . |
| 11 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 12 | America was built on this kind of distress and its culture was enriched by literature and songs full of nostalgia , yearning and grief . |
| 13 | It is believed the chapel was built on this spot by monks at the beginning of he 16th century . |
| 14 | It was built after this bit , from , from what I can make out and this is felted underneath the tiles but that bit is n't and that 's why we get the problems out there , but he put the tile back but it slipped . |