Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] been built [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail . |
| 9 | Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were filming at Bloomwater , a stately home in Berkshire which had been built by Sir Henry Manceville , an eccentric nobleman , in 1780 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Ferry loop line brought the trams to the waterfront , passing on their return the Pharos Lighthouse , which had been built in 1840 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After this , if the weather was fine , there would be a procession to the life size model of the grotto of Lourdes , which had been built in the recreation ground out of a kind of artificial rock closely resembling anthracite . |
| 16 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 17 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 18 | The machine , which had been built in the late nineteen sixties , had been delivered to Mrs Handy 's home on May the fourteenth after she had bought it through a relative . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He appealed to the pseudo-science of ‘ phrenology ’ , which had been built around the assumption that the shape of the brain determined a person 's character . |
| 23 | 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 . |