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Example sentences for "being built"

  • St. John’s is not a copy of any particular period of middle-age art, being built in the style designated pseudo-gothic.

  • A New Record Office in being built at the back of the Roll’s Chapel so that it is to be hoped the valuable documents now kept in this stable will soon find a better lodging.

  • These structures, as every one knows, are common amongst our hills, being built by shepherds, as conspicuous marks, and occasionally by boys in sport.

  • Being built now in the naval shipyard at Udrydde.

  • The Warlord class battleship that is being built at the Cenerentola Spaceyards.

  • But wouldn't you be just a little bit interested if I was to tell you that one is being built today?

  • The origin of these mountains was evidently volcanic, being built up of trap-rock lifting its columned masses abruptly from the level floor of the valley, and almost without foothills to dwarf the greater elevation.

  • Turkish area in late 1991 asked for a multibillion-dollar grant from Turkey to help ease the burden of the economic crisis.

  • Of what do they take most account, of the galleys and ships which are being built there, or of the religious instruction which was to be preached there?

  • It needs nothing but the parapet, which is being built.

  • As I have written, that house is so unsuitable that the erection of the new church and house is being pushed forward; it is being built of stone, and will be very substantial and commodious, and will be completed inside of six months.

  • The fort, which is being built of stone, has been fractured in some places, from the great weight.

  • The ship is being built in that district, and paid for out of the tributes which your Majesty has from that province; and this city provided some articles which were lacking there.

  • So many Chinese are coming to Manila that another Parián is being built to accommodate them.

  • The church is spoken of as being built of logs.

  • The houses are practically fire-proof, being built of adobe, and roofed with tiles.

  • It was finished in 1743, and is still in a good state of preservation, being built of most substantial masonry, with walls of stone eighteen or twenty feet thick.

  • The Hotel Oriental is the best in South America, being built of Italian marble, and luxuriously furnished.

  • The San Diego and Arizona Railway is being built on a new and lower grade for nearly 220 miles.

  • A large dry dock is being built at the Pacific end having the same usable dimensions as the canal locks, capable of accommodating any vessel that can pass through the canal.

  • A tolerable idea of the state of the discussion regarding the propriety of using the locution is being built, and all like expressions, will, it is hoped, be obtained from the following extracts.

  • The government relies on bilateral and multilateral aid for operating expenses and public investment, and is strongly induced to adhere to structural adjustment programs designed by the IMF and the World Bank.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being built" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being admitted; being afraid; being alone; being also; being apprehended; being borne; being built; being called; being caught; being composed; being connected; being dead; being disturbed; being duly; being either; being joined; being justified; being like; being lost; being minded; being near; being read; being supposed; being unable; being united; symphonic poems