Sentence examples for river was built from inspiring English sources

The complex, which rambles along the edge of the river, was built in 1926 and named for the author of the brooding Gothic romance "Jane Eyre".

Chenonceau, spanning the Cher river, was built in 1513 by Katherine Briçonnet and embellished by Diane de Poitiers and then Catherine de Medici.

The Wivenhoe Dam on the Brisbane river was built to protect the city of Brisbane from another flood like the one of 1974.

The house, a Victorian Gothic overlooking the river, was built in 1875 by an oyster kingpin; there is a shucking room in the basement, and Smith and Rahman still find shells in their garden.

Burma itself has a long history of moving the capital around the country: Mandalay, its last royal capital, on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river, was built by King Mindon in the late 19th century.

The Rom, which takes its name from the nearby river, was built using seamless pressurised concrete and is closely based on Californian skateparks.

Joseph River in Three Rivers was built in 1903.

The tunnels, which run under the Hudson and East Rivers, were built more than 90 years ago and serve an estimated 300,000 passengers daily.

Most of actual abutments in rivers are built on foundation, while there is limited number of study available on the effects of the foundation on the local scour.

A preliminary hydrokinetic turbine prototype for river applications was built for experimental testing at the circulating water channel at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division.

The name ship of the Enns-class river monitors was built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino.