Example sentences of "[been] built [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The airstrip , with its unfriendly yellow cross that warned strange aircraft from landing , had been built across the curved flukes of the anchor , which otherwise seemed to be covered in low scrub , slash pine and sea-grape . |
| 3 | She lost her way ; new fiats had been built across roads marked in the A to Z , and it was difficult to find anyone who had heard of Leominster Gardens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | The figure of 231 Boulton and Watt steam engines as having been built between 1775 and 1800 is now less certain . |
| 7 | While all that agitation was going on a dual carriageway had been built between Aberdeen and Stonehaven . |
| 8 | The house was more modern than she had expected — at a guess , she thought it must have been built between the wars . |
| 9 | This had been built during the American War when he toured England to rally support among Radical and Nonconformist circles for Lincoln 's armies . |
| 10 | On either side of it , where the houses had been bombed , blocks of dull flats had been built during Jarvis 's childhood . |
| 11 | It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling . |
| 12 | Yet it has not been built without cost . |
| 13 | The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship , but Del Mar 's new stadium has been built without a roof . |
| 14 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 15 | The Panama Canal could not have been built without the help of Guppies . |
| 16 | And he admits to being impressed by new housing partnerships between the public and private sectors on projects which could not have been built without the co-operation of both parties . |
| 17 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
| 18 | New stations have been built since independence at Jodhpur , Siliguri , and Baroda , among many others . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most evening activity starts in the American style caf é/bar; that has been built down at street level . |
| 24 | Since 1960 new docks and an oil terminal have been built down river to handle larger ships and a growing trade , which is mainly with Europe . |
| 25 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | A path has now been built under the arch of the bridge at the east end of Glasgow Green . |
| 28 | Over the centuries , a string of mills had been built along the Chelt , virtually all of them corn mills . |
| 29 | An oil pipeline links Milford Haven and Swansea and four new refineries have been built along the coast of Milford Haven . |
| 30 | It 's the dams and hydro-electric barrages which have been built along the Dnepr , down to the Black Sea . |