Example sentences of "be built [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These main-line electric multiple units had been built between 1959 and 1963 for the Kent Coast electrification with a design life of approximately twenty-five years . |
| 2 | The figure of 231 Boulton and Watt steam engines as having been built between 1775 and 1800 is now less certain . |
| 3 | By 1939 one third of all the houses in England and Wales had been built since 1918 ; and extensive urban land absorption was in evidence particularly in the 1930s . |
| 4 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
| 5 | Although 24 large conference complexes have been built since 1975 and 22 new centres are expected within the next five years , hotels are still well placed to cater for conference business , as shown by the following table : |
| 6 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 7 | on the the light of the commitments of which a substantial amount are act actually planning permission , and some four thousand odd will actually have been built since ninety one . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 9 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 10 | Others consist mainly of equipment that has been built for particular experiments . |
| 11 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 12 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 13 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Yet whole socio-cultural theories , of a kind , have been built on this kind of argument . |
| 21 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |
| 22 | Through the township of Yavas , over the bridge of rusted steel that crosses the river , and past Camp 11 and Camp 2 where the Central Investigation Prison has been built with concrete to house those who face interrogation for misdemeanours committed within the barbed wire and free-fire corridors . |
| 23 | Aesthetically positioned in small clusters , the lodges have been built with one aim in mind . |
| 24 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 25 | Here the queen was , according to local records , accommodated in a turreted tower house known since as Mary Queen of Scots House , though a few researchers have concluded that it could not have been built until many years after her stay in the burgh . |
| 26 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 27 | The theatre is known to have been built in 1599 , and closed by 1642 , but if records are to be believed today 's rebuilding hardly matches the efficiency of 17th century construction workers . |
| 28 | The newest building in the centre of Qara Tappah had been built in 1934 . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 30 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |