Example sentences of "to build [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 2 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 3 | In the most severe cases these children are taken into care and professional care-givers or foster-parents will start to build up a relationship with the child . |
| 4 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 5 | Products available include : Select Portfolio , an efficient way to build up a portfolio from a choice of more than 40 offshore funds covering equity , bond , cash , managed and regionally specialist ; Capital Choice , a single premium bond ; Flexi Saver , a tax efficient savings plan ; Maxi Saver , particularly suitable for British expatriates ; Professional Portfolio , an individual portfolio ; Wealth Protector , which combines a discretionary trust with a choice of investment plans ; Keyholder , a scheme designed to ease international property purchase ; and Pension Plus , a flexible retirement plan that has important potential tax advantages for the returning UK expatriate . |
| 6 | Regional Trends , published by the Central Statistical Office , compares more than 3,500 aspects of day-to-day living to build up a snapshot of the nation . |
| 7 | Try to build up a rapport with the judge . |
| 8 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Broadly speaking , the assessors , divided into MPs , industrialists , and senior party volunteers do not mark a score card ; their task is to build up a profile of the applicants ' intellectual and practical potential . |
| 10 | Yes , it 's for the dictionary project , we 're doing a , erm we 're trying to build up a database at the moment of transcribed spoken language . |
| 11 | This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs . |
| 12 | There is no reason , however , to suppose that Isabella had deliberately tried to build up a party amongst the bishops . |
| 13 | This type of sequence could be used to build up a picture of a patient suffering from a specific condition . |
| 14 | Even though you might continue to build up a picture of the whole operation , it must be based upon an increasing number of assumptions — and assumptions might be wrong , with potentially catastrophic effects upon the correctness of your account of the family and its activities . |
| 15 | Detectives were interviewing the mother , who has asked not to be named , to build up a picture of the kidnapper . |
| 16 | This picture emerges from an analysis of 715 applications to join 3i 's management buy-in programme which has enabled 3i to build up a picture of the business experience and personal characteristics of future MBI managers . |
| 17 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 18 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 19 | As we have seen , this involves a considerable sorting of data in order to build up a picture of the site — to see , for example , what buildings existed there , and at what periods . |
| 20 | Careful sampling of such beds at close intervals by boring tools which reduce the risk of contamination to a minimum , followed by laboratory treatment designed to separate the pollen grains , allows the investigator to build up a picture of the vegetation conditions prevailing during the period of deposition of the bed . |
| 21 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 22 | The random walk model could then be used to build up a picture of the possible range of river patterns that might develop in such circumstances . |
| 23 | The local historian who is trying to build up a picture of the social and economic structure of his own parish must always take into consideration the extent of the common and the value of the rights over it . |
| 24 | Pupils may be invited to play at being a detective to resolve some mystery , or they might investigate the contents of a seaman 's chest , a collection of craftsman 's tools , or a doctor 's bag , or a lady 's valise , for example to help pupils to build up a picture of the people who used them . |