Example sentences of "be built [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 32 | This bass has actually been built for a customer , and serves as an example of what can be done to satisfy specific requirements . |
| 33 | The cottage itself was not exactly pretty : red-brick and foursquare , it had been built for a farm labourer and his family in the middle of the last century . |
| 34 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 35 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 36 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 37 | It has now been built at no cost to the state beyond a concession . |
| 38 | More than £2,000 MGB bodyshells have been built at the Faringdon factory . |
| 39 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |
| 40 | A glamorous restaurant and bar surround a central palm-fringed swimming pool , and three tennis courts have been built at the foot of Anchorage Hill . |
| 41 | The TOF-SARS system and the ion beam line with associated electronics has been built at the University of Houston . |
| 42 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 43 | A landing-stage has been built at the end of the path , but there is no boat , and on the far side stands a stone summerhouse , the door ajar . |
| 44 | She found herself unable to speak with the fear that clutched at her , the worrying possibility that her whole life had been built on a lie . |
| 45 | ‘ It 's been built on a cover-up . |
| 46 | Fothergill says his company 's reputation has been built on a philosophy that views a lift as more than a metal cabin ; rather something which can add value to a building . |
| 47 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 48 | After all , a couple 's lives may have been built on a lot of separateness . |
| 49 | It seems evident that the structure had been built on a shelf cut into the steep hill slope and a terrace added on the north side . |
| 50 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |
| 51 | Malaria was hyper-endemic by the beach , so the village had been built on the cliffs above it , near the fresh springs . |
| 52 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 53 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 54 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 55 | Just how it came to be extinguished was something of a mystery , and even the Israelis who live in Ben Ami — the farming settlement that has been built on the site — had scarcely heard the name . |
| 56 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 57 | Note too the Roman remains around the outside , the church having been built on the side of Roman Milan 's Hercules Baths , one of the last pagan works completed in the third-century before the city became Christian . |
| 58 | A geothermal plant , which converts steam and water heated by underground magma into power , has been built on the side of a live volcano at Pahoa . |
| 59 | A new complex of buildings has been built on the outskirts of the city . |
| 60 | In just six months a new Hardys & Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot . |