Example sentences of "[noun pl] build up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It used to take centuries to build up a centimetre or two of topsoil . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This enables schools to build up a flexible resource which teachers can adapt to the varying needs of classes . |
| 10 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 13 | There is therefore potential for such trusts to build up a stake in Newco for the benefit of employees on a much more tax-efficient basis than if employees themselves used their after-tax earnings to acquire shares and then had to pay income tax or capital gains tax when they disposed of them . |
| 14 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 15 | Contrary to one popular view , it is not the case that at the Kalmar plant each group of workers builds up a complete car from a box of component parts . |
| 16 | As the factory operates on shifts throughout every 24 hour period , there are always more workers building up a hunger and thirst . |
| 17 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 18 | The proprietor has spent years building up a remarkable cellar of aged Riojas , which lie side by side with the best that Burgundy and Bordeaux have to offer . |
| 19 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 20 | Drs Anthony and Maggie Barker , average age 70 years , spent 30 years building up a medical service in rural South Africa . |
| 21 | Antiquarian observers built up a picture of an important urban complex enclosed by a stone wall , within which traces of an irregular street system and numerous buildings were visible , some with evidence for tessellated pavements and painted wall plaster . |
| 22 | I put this on the agenda erm the phrase at the moment seems to be flagging things up and my concern is opposite Dave is the but as everybody I 'm sure is aware we 've got erm divisional A L O's based within as Crime Prevention Officers , the main concern for my particular area is Bill although based at has actually for the last three years built up a good working relationship and inspected staff from and . |
| 23 | ‘ The Streamline English course has proved that it is one of the best , if not the best , methods on the market today to encourage students with a wide spectrum abilities to build up a fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English . |
| 24 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 25 | The Pharos single market adviser is a computer programme allowing companies with IBM compatible machines to build up a profile of their business by asking a series of questions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8 ) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity . |
| 28 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 29 | There could be other reasons why work left London though , and in the case of the new firms springing up in the Home Counties and the West Country , low rents rather than low wages appear to have helped Bungay , Frome and other centres to build up a clientele . |
| 30 | Messages IV suggested greater youth in its composer , Stephen Tittle , who used a sort of minimalism with interruptions to build up a spirited and engaging little number , though hardly one to overstretch the skills of Bob Becker , the percussionist this time . |