Example sentences of "[is] to build up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We saw Ede working on the building of a dam which would improve the water supply by 900 per cent and thereby reduce the hunger and disease that lakes a toll of half the children up to five , The other side of his work is to build up grass-roots organisations so the campesinos can protect their rights .
2 Their main function is to build up goodwill and pave the way for future sales .
3 Equally , faith grows and flourishes when it is well nourished and exercised , so the best way to resist doubt is to build up faith rather than simply to fight against doubt .
4 It is realized that some teachers have had to temporarily give up teaching for various reasons and the longer one is out of teaching the harder it is to build up confidence to teach again .
5 The aim of this project is to build up research resources of contemporary manuscript and printed statistical materials in microform for the quantitative analysis of Balkan social and economic trends c1850-1918 .
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