Example sentences of "was build around [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We know at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire , for example , that the medieval village was fitted into a prehistoric and Roman field system ( Fig.30 ) , and at Hound Tor on Dartmoor the medieval hamlet was built around a Bronze Age settlement and its fields ( Fig. 47 ) . |
2 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
3 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
4 | It was built around the year 1800 at the crossing point of the brook and the Grand Union canal , which it carries above it . |
5 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
6 | It was built around the shrine of Saint Alban , a Roman centurion who is said to be the first person in Britain to be executed for the Christian faith . |
7 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
8 | The oldest was built around the cave in which St Paul is said to have lived . |