Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb past] been built [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 2 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 3 | He was still grinning when they rode into the camp which had been built by the Moi in a bend of the slow-flowing river . |
| 4 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 5 | This construction usually evoked great alarm among the surrounding natives and led to attempts to destroy the fort which had been built on their land … |
| 6 | The forerunners of the railway stations of the Trans-Siberian were the ètapes , the stockaded rest stations with barrack-like rooms , and the post-houses which had been built across Siberia earlier in the century . |
| 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 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 9 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 10 | Between Tripoli and Gabes , there was a fortified belt known as the Mareth line which had been built before the war by the French to hinder Italian ambitions to expand their empire into Tunisia . |
| 11 | In the US the historic walls which had been built between the banking system and the savings and loans were breached without attention to the integrity of the financial system . |
| 12 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 13 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 14 | I recently obtained permission to search the grounds of a medieval house which had been built upon the site of a wall- enclosed 14th century residence . |