Example sentences of "[was/were] built on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family . |
| 2 | In time , more elaborate structures were built on the lines , including mounds ( or ‘ tumuli ’ ) of earth and stone , ‘ burial chambers ’ and dolmens or cromlechs . |
| 3 | Er the new towns that Hertfordshire were built on were built on the banks of moving skilled engineers out of West London . |
| 4 | Shanty towns made of waste materials were built on the outskirts of cities , and bitterly called " Hoovervilles " . |
| 5 | San Babila is set on the ruins of a fourth-century church , and that itself was built on the foundations of a pagan temple to the sun . |
| 6 | The main population of the city has always lived in Pest but after the Mongol invasion of 1241 , a citadel was built on the hills opposite , since known as castle hill . |
| 7 | Ayodhya 's Babri mosque was built on the ruins of an old Hindu temple during the Moghul invasions of the late 16th century . |
| 8 | By 1800 a new town was built on the lowlands next to the old city . |
| 9 | A sports and community hall was built on the sports field . |
| 10 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 11 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 12 | The Serbs were forced to accept Hungarian occupation of Belgrade and the capital was shifted to Smederovo , where an impressive fortress was built on the banks of the Danube , 50 km downstream from Belgrade . |