Example sentences of "and build up [art] " in BNC.

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1 Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS .
2 The White Dwarf pulls material away from its companion , and builds up a shell around itself ; when enough hydrogen has accumulated there is a violent though short-lived outburst .
3 Anyone who earns below the lower earnings limit does not pay national insurance contributions , and builds up no record within the national insurance system .
4 The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings .
5 just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat .
6 The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army .
7 Sequins can be overlapped too , like scales ; it is really fun choosing them and building up a picture
8 So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases .
9 Do not let this kindness on the part of the college discourage you from buying your own textbooks and building up a library of your own .
10 ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender .
11 For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word .
12 They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region .
13 Thus professionalism may be seen as expertise applied to and building up the relationship with the individual pupil , where a trusting relationship which can share information and build autonomy is seen as a goal .
14 We had great fun going round seeing everybody and building up the bidding . ’
15 Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains .
16 Advice to parents is based on a mixture of behaviour management skills , nutritional help , reassurance , and building up the parents ’ confidence in coping with the child and at times long-term support with careful monitoring of the child 's weight and the parent-child relationship ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) .
17 Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality .
18 The wild Colorado would flood every spring with snowmelt from its mountain headwaters , nourishing the riverbank ecosystems , and building up the waves in the big rapids to the size of three-storey houses .
19 The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals .
20 The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " .
21 He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry .
22 He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business .
23 Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings .
24 In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third .
25 Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children .
26 From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] .
27 The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams .
28 But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ .
29 The pilot has already spent twenty five years in the movie business and built up a collection of classic planes .
30 North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit .
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