Example sentences of "was built around [art] " 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 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 5 | A 9″ concrete base was laid and after the conservatory was installed by contractors , a double-thickness ( 6″ ) brick wall was built around the edges of the pond , to a height of 2′ 6″ above ground , following the shape of the conservatory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The oldest was built around the cave in which St Paul is said to have lived . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was built around the year 1800 at the crossing point of the brook and the Grand Union canal , which it carries above it . |
| 11 | An extensive education programme took everyone offsite on a two-day course , which was built around the Tom Peters philosophy . |