Compléter Passive voiceVersion en ligne Fill in the gaps with the verb in brackets par MJ conti 1 came built left driven done has invented crowded been are found found live carried How Towns Have Arisen Most villages and towns on the British Isles into being because of their favourable situation for trade . Rather more than a hundred years ago , a great change came over the land . Many machines were about that time . Spinning and weaving , for example , which had previously done by hand , were by machinery that were by water or steam - power . The work which usually was done in the houses of the people began to be on in large mills or factories , and workers it convenient to live near them . More and more factories were and men and women the country districts in great numbers and into towns . Since then the movement of people into towns been going on until now . England is dotted with great cities . All over Britain , and especially in those parts were the coal needed for power is to be , there are mining and manufacturing areas , such as the Lancashire cotton district , the Black county of Midland , and others . A great many towns found close together in those districts , and a great many people within a small area , so that the population is very dense .