Sentence examples for built on former from inspiring English sources

Co-op City is built on former Hutchinson River marshlands.

Houses are being built on former farmland about a mile from Anthony Rudinski Sr.'s dairy farm.

Most of that growth, township officials acknowledged, came about through the construction of thousands of market-rate homes built on former farmland.

More than 5,000 houses are affected so far, mostly to the east of the city and along the banks of the Avon River, where many were built on former swampland.

Many farms in Iowa, he said, are built on former wetlands and have drains right under the crop roots that whisk water away before soils can absorb and hold on to at least some of the fertilizer.

12 p.m. 12) RAILS TO TRAILS Take Highway 26 to Banks, where you can rent a bike at Banks Bicycle Repair & Rental (14175 Northwest Sellers Road; 503-680-3269; from $8 an hour) and ride Portland's rural answer to the High Line in New York — the Banks-Vernonia Bike Trail (oregonstateparks.org), a 20-mile route built on former train tracks.

Mr. Clinton's action, which requires no authorization by Congress, builds on former President George Bush's 1992 ban on logging within 1,000 feet of a sequoia.

We build on former work (see Dolls et al. 2012) which investigates the magnitude of automatic stabilizers inherent in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries plus the US1.

Although a few of the observations documented are not particularly new, the manuscript by Zylics and colleagues builds on former data on Ezh2 and G9a in regulating development around implantation.

This basic distinction can also be seen in integrated curricula; for instance, in the Dundee model, normal structure and abnormal structure belong to separate phases of the curriculum, although there is an explicit intention to build on former knowledge and skill (Harden et al., 1997).

The store, which cost $5 million to build on a former parking lot, is at 450 West Broadway (near Prince Street).