Example sentences of "be built on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In just six months a new Hardys & Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot . |
| 10 | Most countries that have both mountains and seaboard usually have their highest points somewhere near the middle ; they are built on the principle of the pitched roof . |
| 11 | Their nests are frequently threatened by fast moving craft as they are built on the water 's surface , anchored only by reeds or branches . |
| 12 | And because many railway stations are built on the edge of town , the Lucas bus could drop passengers in the centre just the sort of vehicle that could be useful on branch lines — if there are any left by the time its development is complete . |
| 13 | Finally , it is evident that Duguit 's theory of law is far removed from those theories which are built on the assumption of the priority of individual rights . |
| 14 | Any programme that holds out the hope of eradicating the underclass must be built on the foundation of re-establishing full employment . |
| 15 | ‘ It is my view they need an era of increased certainty which can now be built on the foundation of recent reform decisions and on which they can , with far more confidence than has been the case in the past , base and plan their futures . ’ |
| 16 | Some of these seem deficient : for example , the restriction of pragmatics to grammatically encoded aspects of context , or the notion that pragmatics should be built on the concept of appropriateness . |
| 17 | Similarly , he assured the American ambassador , Carlton Hayes , that Spain wished to remain neutral , while allowing German submarine detector stations to be built on the south coast . |
| 18 | He commanded his church to be built on the knowledge of God not on ethos . |
| 19 | A systematic method of conveyancing , time and labour-saving as well as relatively foolproof , can be built on the framework of these three agendas : " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 20 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 21 | Often the Viking chiefs decided that their villages should be built on the river terraces . |
| 22 | The complex , which would be built on the site of the recently demolished Carmarthen Bay power station , would provide facilities for cricket , soccer , bowls and badminton . |
| 23 | It is the fourth church to be built on the site . |
| 24 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 25 | that correct what sort of time scale was it ? , er , a , a block of er flats or apartments er that are going to be built on the site er , when were the estimates made ? , or when were they made in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 26 | A new site to house it and the famous chained library will be built on the site when the dig is finished . |
| 27 | New houses are to be built on the site of the former Cameron maternity hospital and its facilities have been transferred to a new unit at the town 's general hospital . |
| 28 | Houses to be built on the site of the former Cameron maternity hospital in Hartlepool are to be named Greenbank Court . |
| 29 | Hartlepool Council 's development control subcommittee has granted planning permission for a bird hide to be built on the site of the town 's nuclear power station . |
| 30 | The 42 houses which will be provided by a new resident- controlled housing organisation , will be built on the site of 1950s tenements in the Kingsridge and Cleddans area of the scheme , traditionally known as an area of poor housing . |