Example sentences of "be build on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 2 | We are building on this . |
| 3 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 4 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 5 | This objection could be countered by examples of churches known to have been built on pagan sites , such as Cascob , Radnorshire and Fimber , East Yorkshire , which were actually built on tumuli . |
| 6 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 7 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 8 | For some great conductors it was — Karajan , like everyone else , had a good line in Knappertsbusch stories — but Karajan 's repertory and reputation have not been built on that premiss . |
| 9 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 10 | ‘ Starter schemes ’ or ‘ shell-housing ’ , ready plastered-out but not finished , have often been built on this basis , for example in Ribble Valley District , some Devon districts and in Suffolk Coastal District . |
| 11 | Yet whole socio-cultural theories , of a kind , have been built on this kind of argument . |
| 12 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |
| 13 | … patently the demand for new land would fall as these sites are recycled , and new houses are built on cleared sites . |
| 14 | Some strategies for evaluation are built on practical theories concerning the way individual professional development takes place ; others relate more closely to a concept of institutional development . |
| 15 | Secondly , it is arguable that most other theories , e.g. those based on semantic components , can be subsumed within it , in so far as they are built on consistent and logical lines . |
| 16 | Much of London 's Docklands are built on re-claimed land , which was originally marshy . |
| 17 | Manchester and Liverpool are doing the same , as more and more houses are being built on vast estates , with their own shopping centres and with factories which are built on industrial trading estates . |
| 18 | These days , all information media are built on electronic foundations so the qualification is simply redundant . |
| 19 | ‘ Both are built on seven hills , both have been the pleasure centres of mighty empires . |
| 20 | Sort of keep on so that you 're building on that all the time so you think right okay I know how to do capital at the start , full stop at the end , keep that do n't let that go just cos I 'm concentrating on something else . |
| 21 | We 're building on this success to provide customers with the highest standards we can offer . |
| 22 | Now if Hereford are to build on last week 's success they need to get at least a draw at Gigg lane . |
| 23 | Two houses are to be built on grazing land behind 71 High Street , Byers Green , Spennymoor . |
| 24 | Two houses are to be built on grazing land behind 71 High Street , Byers Green , Spennymoor . |
| 25 | A second one , the Greeks hope , is about to be built on European money . |
| 26 | Or retaining walls can be built on each side of the steps |
| 27 | A conveyancing business can be built on many other bases apart from price , and it is time for conveyancers to start to market these bases in order to secure the future success of their businesses . |
| 28 | On the contrary , it is to yearn for closer unity to be built on firm foundations and to reflect the real desires of a complex patchwork of different nations and of peoples who live in that part of the world geographically known as Europe . |
| 29 | By 1993 , a HK$4bn airport that is to be built on reclaimed land off the island of Taipa is due to be opened . |
| 30 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |