Example sentences of "had been build as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 2 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 3 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 4 | It was his private theory that Woodfield Council estate had been built as a series of experiments in wind-tunnelling . |
| 5 | Riverside General had been built as an overflow hospital for Tewkesbury and Gloucester and surrounding areas . |