Example sentences of "build [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 2 | This project builds on upon the existing expertise of the Keele Life Histories Centre in the interpretation of autobiographies , in the historical study of social mobility , and in the analysis of social class and gender dynamics of historical change . |
| 3 | The field station consists of a modern Ann Exe built on to the old coast guard station . |
| 4 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 5 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 6 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 7 | So take your time to learn the phrasing , start off slowly and then build gradually to the written tempo in each case . |
| 8 | Within the castle precincts and close to the Saxon church of St Mary-in Castro are the remains of a Roman lighthouse , or pharos , built early in the imperial occupation of Britain to guide cross-channel vessels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 16 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just imagine what a seven foot gauge ‘ King ’ or ‘ Castle ’ , built out to the full loading gauge , could have achieved or what speeds modern diesel and electric seven foot trains might attain ! |
| 25 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 26 | The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade . |
| 27 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 28 | That overlooks the protection that is built in to the dampened banding system . |
| 29 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 30 | The ‘ subjective meaning ’ of what the woodsman or marksman is doing is built in to the basic description or interpretation of the facts . |