Example sentences of "[noun] build [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 2 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 3 | This high level is a primary risk in heart disease , since excess cholesterol builds up a sticky silt-like deposit in the arteries , impeding the passage of blood and increasing the pressure on the heart . |
| 4 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 5 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 6 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 7 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 8 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 9 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 10 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 11 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 12 | His papers were at once sealed by order of the king ; and in the 1680s Colbert de Croissy built up a large working archive covering the years from 1660 onwards . |
| 13 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 14 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 15 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 16 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 17 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 18 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma . |
| 21 | The attempt to build up a separate National Labour Party proved a dismal failure , while the Liberal Nationals continued as pensioners of the Conservative party until finally merging with them — as the Liberal Unionists had done previously — in 1966 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Labour Party officially viewed the Convention as " an attempt to build up a new Political Party " , and indeed it is not improbable that the Communists , fearing illegality , were preparing a new organization on United Front lines into which they could merge if necessary . |
| 25 | It used to take centuries to build up a centimetre or two of topsoil . |
| 26 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 27 | In this chapter some of the ways in which palaeontologists determine the way fossil animals lived are described , reanimating the dead fragments to build up a living creature . |
| 28 | This enables schools to build up a flexible resource which teachers can adapt to the varying needs of classes . |
| 29 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Mounting debts , unconnected with Crisis Line , may leave the service without a home , wiping out a year 's work building up a national referral network.So Mr Morris wants a grant to continue the work . |