Example sentences of "had been build on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |