Example sentences of "was built [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this same quarry the longest bridge in Cornwall was built across the Camel at Wadebridge in 1485 , and it is still going strong . |
| 2 | An equally elaborate railway headquarters was built across the road , and together they owed more to the Mughal style in India than to any local architectural forms . |
| 3 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 4 | At one end of the stableyard the walls of the kitchen garden joined the backs of the loose boxes — an archway crowned by a belfry was built across the carriage-way leading out of the yard to the great swirl of gravel in front of the house , and onwards down the avenue . |
| 5 | Some years ago , when the locomotive shed was closed at Keadby and engine power was concentrated at Frodingham , a pump-house was built beside the line to supply water to the new Frodingham locomotive depot . |
| 6 | A high bank with a ditch on one side , it was built between the estuaries of the Dee and Severn in the late eighth century by Offa , king of Mercia , not as a defence against the Welsh but to control trade across the border . |
| 7 | The house was built between the third and fourth centuries and was located less than three feet underground . |
| 8 | The great campanile , over 300 feet in height , was built between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 9 | It was built under the superintendence of Mr Wright , the Chief of the Company 's carriage department ; and the interior was fitted up by Messrs Gillow , eminent upholsterers of Oxford Street . |
| 10 | As it was on such a steep gradient , a large basement was built under the rear end to give a level floor for the tracks . |
| 11 | Coach 1622 was built under the last lot on the diagram . |
| 12 | Build around a forward-mounted Transit diesel engine and Land Rover axles and a mini-digger cab , the unit was built over the winter . |
| 13 | Staveley Works station was built over the Chesterfield Canal , and served Hollingwood and the Stanton & Staveley works which generated a good deal of freight traffic . |
| 14 | The first stone ridge was built over the Vltava in the 12th century . |
| 15 | After burial at Santiago , a church was built over the relics . |
| 16 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 17 | During the 1960s and early 1970s , a series of dams was built along the river as part of a massive irrigation system . |
| 18 | In the 1860s a line was built along the path of the old moat and then out to the new dock at Neufahrwasser ( Nowy Port ) , and ten years later a second branch line went on up the coast to Koszalin . |
| 19 | It was built during the 1620s by Sir John Winter who , by 1640 , had control over 18,000 acres of the Forest . |
| 20 | Part of the reason for this increase is that most of the motorway network was built during the 1960s and that , as the roads have got older , so they need more spent on them . |
| 21 | A new bridge was built during the 1960s , bypassing the old one — an attractive structure of three semi-circular arches divided by piers with cut-waters . |
| 22 | On the hillside above is the Pico Fort ( Castelo de São João de Pico ) which was built during the Spanish occupation . |
| 23 | Sutton Manor was built during the 1820s as the residence of a retired British Indian Governor . |
| 24 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 25 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 26 | When foundations for the house were being dug — the house was built for the Marquis Litta in the sixteenth-century — Roman mosaics were discovered . |
| 27 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 28 | The church was built for the adjacent Ursuline convent which has an attractive courtyard to the right of the church . |
| 29 | The church was built for the German Lutherans in Prague between 1611 and 1613 , after the Letter of Majesty ( 1609 ) ensured freedom of worship once more to all ( see p. 9 ) . |
| 30 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |