Example sentences of "been built on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
2 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | Yet whole socio-cultural theories , of a kind , have been built on this kind of argument . |
10 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |