Example sentences of "was build around " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The National 's Boris Godunov was built around Ognovenko ; he had to stay home . |
| 3 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 4 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 5 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed the AcerArc1 ACE box which was built around interchangable MIPS R4000 RISC and Intel 80486 parts and shown earlier this year running NT is now very much on hold , with the only users being Microsoft and Acer internally . |
| 10 | One section of the list , " Statistical Ideas ' , was not included in the test development although one of the microcomputer tasks was built around pupils ' ideas on probability . |
| 11 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law 's leadership , but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction , threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law . |
| 12 | The project was built around interviews , conducted and recorded by the pupils , with a number of people who had lived through the war in Dudley . |
| 13 | The oldest was built around the cave in which St Paul is said to have lived . |
| 14 | With the eventual departure of Nik Powell , the inner core was built around Branson , Draper and Berry — a triumvirate whose similarity in medium-length haircuts , corduroy trousers and comfortable sweaters could , on occasion , make them look almost like brothers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | It was built around the year 1800 at the crossing point of the brook and the Grand Union canal , which it carries above it . |
| 20 | Northwich was built around ICI . ’ |
| 21 | An extensive education programme took everyone offsite on a two-day course , which was built around the Tom Peters philosophy . |