Example sentences of "build [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our job is to help build up trust between the smaller companies and their banks . ’ |
| 2 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 3 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 4 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 5 | Outflanking Imelda Marcos , Cojuangco emerged as the leading right-wing opposition contender , continuing his campaign to build up support in the former Marcos bastions of northern Ilocos province and the Cagayan valley , and in the Mindanao and the crucial Visayas , estimated to represent some 21 per cent of the total vote . |
| 6 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 7 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 8 | Dulles went on to form another of his much-favoured regional pacts — the Baghdad Pact ( 1955 ) , which included the USA , Britain , Iran , Iraq and Pakistan — to build up power around the Soviet defence perimeter . |