Example sentences of "[was/were] originally built " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many of the houses were originally built earlier , development in the 18th century is marked by the numerous date stones on property about the village , the earliest being 1746 . |
| 2 | MANY ANCIENT towns in England were originally built with a network of underground tunnels connecting the sites of the churches , guildhalls , monasteries and nunneries . |
| 3 | This will not , of course , help those people living in older properties , many of which were originally built with no insulation at all . |
| 4 | Timber houses of several different periods and cultures have been reconstructed in various experiments , leading to a much better understanding of how such buildings were originally built . |
| 5 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 6 | They were originally built to a Victorian design in the 1920s at Misarden Park near Cirencester , and now they urgently need restoring . |
| 7 | Extra staff have been drafted in to take patients the few hundred yards from the hutted wards of Ormskirk Hospital which were originally built to house Canadian forces during World War II . |
| 8 | It was originally built as a private residence and the Association bought the home in 1962 . |
| 9 | It was originally built as a private residence , and the Association bought the home in 1962 . |
| 10 | JUST BEYOND the flower and orchard filled walled gardens of Easton Neston ( one of England 's greatest and most noble houses ) stands Pomfret Lodge , which was originally built as a dower house for the widowed Countesses of Pomfret . |
| 11 | LEFT : Bonds Mill was originally built in the early 18th century although many of the buildings date from the 1887 rebuilding . |
| 12 | The whole site was originally built in 1843 and was run by Conrad Warner . |
| 13 | It was originally built for a branch of the Rosemberg family in the second half of the 16C . |
| 14 | This inconsistency is due to the fact that the bridge was originally built of timber in the last quarter of the thirteenth century , and the arches were dictated by the size of the oak beams used ; then in the fifteenth century , when the bridge was rebuilt in stone , the timber structure was used as scaffolding and the masonry erected round it , leaving the original wood enclosed within the stone piers and arches . |
| 15 | It was originally built in 1591 as a fishing lodge , and was purchased by Dutch immigrants in the seventeenth century for use as a cloth mill . |
| 16 | It was removed to the present site in 1928 , but was originally built in the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | What was until recently the Round House Arts Centre in Chalk Farm Road was originally built as a locomotive turntable shed for the London and North Western Railway . |
| 18 | The mill was originally built for corn-milling . |
| 19 | Madeira Palácio Hotel was originally built as a Hilton Hotel , a few years before the 1974 Revolution . |
| 20 | It was originally built as a Holiday Inn and is part of a complex of hotel and holiday apartments and villas called Matur . |
| 21 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 22 | ‘ Railway enthusiasts will also be delighted that a lengthy section of one of the world 's oldest railways will be brought back into use for the purpose for which it was originally built carrying freight from Wenfordbridge . |
| 23 | Normally this rests in a make shift shed out the back beside the running lines to Fareham but during the recent works holiday and over more recent weekends it is pushed into the erecting shop where it was originally built 65 years ago . |
| 24 | The ziggurat of Ur was originally built so that their god could step down from heaven into a room at the top of the structure , according to ancient mythology . |
| 25 | The Hotel Majestic was originally built in 1870 and considerable thought and care has gone into the interior decor and the furnishings , to create an attractive , relaxing environment quite ideal for the holidaying guests . |
| 26 | The place was originally built in 1880 and they 're only the third people to have owned it since then . |
| 27 | The house was originally built in 1880 and the Michies are only the third owners |
| 28 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 29 | shop in Essex Road , known as Jireh House was originally built as a hotel or station lodging house , the proprietors hoping to collect trade on the opening of the station . |
| 30 | The dull brick it was originally built in has been encrusted with sculpted mermaids , studded with life-size rhinoceros heads , and given ramparts of giant frogs . |