Example sentences of "build up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , population decline means less than optimum use of the urban infrastructure built up during the major redevelopment phase of the later 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 3 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 4 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 5 | Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 . |
| 6 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 7 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 8 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 9 | Massive bottle-necks built up in the early spring on the railway network , at Koslov , west of Saratov on the route to Moscow and particularly at Balashov , between Saratov and Tsaritsyn on the west side of the Volga . |
| 10 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 11 | Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens . |
| 12 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 13 | But the new financing structure collapsed under them and , as the cultural energy build up during the 1939–45 period became depleted , these filmmakers were only occasionally to work again at the same level of intensity . |
| 14 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Batty and Sterland play in tonight 's continue their fitness build up in the reserve game against Newcastle , tonight Wed and if they come through will be considered for the Boxing Day game at Blackburn . |
| 16 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 17 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 18 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 19 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 20 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 21 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 22 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 23 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |
| 24 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 25 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 26 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 27 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 28 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 29 | This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body . |
| 30 | These feelings can build up into the next repeat of the same interchange . |