Example sentences of "been built [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airstrip , with its unfriendly yellow cross that warned strange aircraft from landing , had been built across the curved flukes of the anchor , which otherwise seemed to be covered in low scrub , slash pine and sea-grape . |
| 2 | This had been built during the American War when he toured England to rally support among Radical and Nonconformist circles for Lincoln 's armies . |
| 3 | Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes . |
| 4 | Problems may have been built into the original design through the inadequate protection of timber from ground moisture , lack of ventilation or roof-slopes which were insufficiently steep to drain away all rainwater . |
| 5 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 6 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 7 | Now a special paddock has been built at the Australian government 's Ginnindera Experimental Station , surrounded by piping which collects air from the field and analyses its gas content . |
| 8 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 9 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 10 | A low , curving wall faced with flint had been built on the seaward boundary behind whose shelter every spring a bright ribbon of daffodils strained and tossed in the March winds . |
| 11 | It had been built on the seaward side of a small cottage that had evidently existed before it . |
| 12 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 13 | The Lodge , as Manningham 's new home was called , was a large bungalow which had obviously been built within the past couple of years . |
| 14 | Loxford New Rectory was redbrick and had been built in the early sixties . |
| 15 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 16 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 17 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 18 | The machine , which had been built in the late nineteen sixties , had been delivered to Mrs Handy 's home on May the fourteenth after she had bought it through a relative . |
| 19 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 20 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 21 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |
| 22 | Virtual Personal Computing — the attractive use of graphics , colour , sound and the ‘ mouse ’ which have eased the acceptance of AppleMacs and PCs at this University , have been built upon the high bandwidth once only available between components of a single personal computer . |