Example sentences of "been built in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The hotel has been built in a lovely mansion style .
2 After all , the new towns have been built in a car-familiar age and do not have accident rates inflated by large numbers of pre-car districts of great traffic danger .
3 There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 .
4 Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter .
5 Loxford New Rectory was redbrick and had been built in the early sixties .
6 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 .
7 But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt .
8 The houses next to these almshouses were quite modern for the street — probably having been built in the eighteen-seventies .
9 At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Excavation has also uncovered the impressive rock-cut ditch of the Norman motte and bailey castle , believed to have been built in the 1080s .
15 Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry .
16 The temple had been built in the 10th century BC as an expression of the Kingship of Solomon in all his glory .
17 It had been built in the 1860s , to take advantage of the sudden influx of visitors provided by the arrival of the London , Chatham and Dover Railway at Broadstairs .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 .
21 At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America .
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