Example sentences of "to build [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 2 | Only some Suwaya were interested in this exercise of reconstruction , and the attempt to build up a rounded picture of life under Arab government exposed a certain impatience . |
| 3 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 4 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 5 | Close study of applications and their results , including objections , enable the developer to build up a comprehensive survey of the current attitudes of the local planning authority to development proposals , and those sites likely to receive favourable consideration . |
| 6 | There were many subsequent raids , carried out by small patrols , and it is difficult to build up a comprehensive picture of exactly what took place . |
| 7 | The aim is to build up a comprehensive database on the Gault of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 9 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 10 | He supported the alliance because to take the cooperative movement into the Labour Party wholly would not help the Labour Party : and it was necessary to build up a political consciousness in the movement so that cooperative ideals could be translated by political machinery . |
| 11 | From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior . |
| 12 | The other is to build up a cognitive map of the region to be traversed . |
| 13 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 14 | I 'm beginning to build up a vague picture of this man . |
| 15 | Even though he appears to have been born with the skills , he needs to build up a substantial repertoire of techniques . |
| 16 | Many people use them to build up a tax-free fund for youngsters which they get at 18 or 21 , although you are restricted to one scheme per person . |
| 17 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 18 | He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . |
| 19 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 20 | It is important , therefore , before attempting to build up a successful front for the furtherance of your career , first to ensure that the real attitude behind the front is one that will support it on all occasions . |
| 21 | Interviews with Spinelli and other ‘ elite opinion leaders will be used together with documentation from EC institutions to build up a developmental profile of key federal ideas and influences in the context of European Union . |
| 22 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 23 | Examining a number of artefacts of the same period can help to build up a composite picture of a society and culture . |
| 24 | It is-thought that , in the early stages , the sea tended to build up a fanshaped mass of shingle ridges represented by the phases AB , AC and AD ( Fig. 8.31 ) . |
| 25 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the general approach is broadly the same , working with small groups of data and finding links between them in an attempt to build up a coherent picture of the past . |
| 27 | The aim of both the part-time education and further extended full-time study , on grants , would be to acquire qualifications on a module basis , so as to build up a whole range of technical qualifications . |
| 28 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 29 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |
| 30 | The teacher may not instantly use all of this material , but the aim should be to build up a growing collection of useful resources which will remain the property of the school and which can be handed on to any teacher , or supply teacher who has to teach the course . |