Example sentences of "have build [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries carving has built up a range of chisels and gouges , the names of which are as esoteric as the craft itself |
| 2 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 3 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 4 | British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company . |
| 5 | Sharelink has built up a clientele of about 57,000 in two years . |
| 6 | Not just overseas where Save the Children has built up a well deserved reputation for its long term and disaster work — but here in Britain , too . |
| 7 | Burmah , where Dutch industrial group SHV has built up a 9 per cent stake , refused to comment on rumours in New York that it was preparing a bid for American-based Quaker State Corporation which makes motor oils . |
| 8 | Mr Bates has built up a 29.65 per cent stake in Cabra through a Virgin Islands-based company , Vanbrugh , but a full-scale bid looks unlikely . |
| 9 | The questionnaire has built up a socio-economic background to the financial and physical environment that family and part-time farmers have to live in . |
| 10 | In the intervening months the Labour Party has built up a range of policies for education , science and industry which will help Britain build the strong , competitive economy it so desperately needs . |
| 11 | At Leyland , Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses . |
| 12 | Those who do not can afford to take that line , presumably , because over time the system has built up a stock of people and procedures which allow it to evolve almost under its own momentum . |
| 13 | In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality . |
| 14 | It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country . |
| 15 | Over the years , Michael has built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide , who visit whenever in London . |
| 16 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 17 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 18 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 19 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 20 | He has built up a strong , ecumenical team of Christians and Hindus which is unusual for a centre of this kind . |
| 21 | To maximise Milan 's chances of doing well in the Italian league , the national cup and the European Cup at the same time , Mr Berlusconi has built up a squad of players that can field two top-rate sides . |
| 22 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 23 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 24 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |
| 25 | Nomad has built up a loyal customer base , owing in part , say the Curries , to its ‘ bright airy atmosphere ’ and to the level of personal service provided . |
| 26 | The general issue of reconciling with his academic interests the feeling of social commitment to an underprivileged group with whom the researcher has built up a strong feeling of empathy is discussed by Labov ( 1982b ) ; this discussion forms a preliminary to his account of the use made of linguistic evidence by the defendants in the famous Black English Trial in Michigan . |
| 27 | We did discover , however , that one called Mait — his officially registered name is Gilles Lemaitre — has built up a small but powerful network of his own , and that they have performed many cochon gris ceremonies . ’ |
| 28 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 29 | Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series . |
| 30 | This small but impressive gallery has been a launch pad for many artists over the years and has built up a steady , progressive reputation under the new directorship of Tim Eastop . |