Example sentences of "build [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a building contractor whose company builds houses for the council should decline to become a member of the housing committee and so avoid innuendos which would otherwise follow . |
| 2 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 3 | So the L & NWR were building coaches in the same area as Joseph Wright & Sons , at best not a satisfactory arrangement , and a major factor in the decision to transfer this activity to Wolverton . |
| 4 | The distributaries will build levees of the coarser parts of their load , while the areas between will be occasionally flooded , built up with finer sediments , converted into swamps and so become sites of the formation of peats and organic muds . |
| 5 | We 're building shops for the new town . |
| 6 | The loggers build roads through the jungle to reach the trees and bring diseases which the Indians have no defences against which kill them . |
| 7 | Attractive stone built houses in the centre of the town have decorated timber surfaces under the gables and half-hipped roofs . |
| 8 | In Australia , the compass termites build castles in the shape of huge flat chisel blades , always with their long axis pointing north and south . |
| 9 | In this as in other areas , the fundamental error in our approach to policing is revealed : we do not trust the police so we build safeguards into the way they exercise their power . |
| 10 | The stone walling blocks , available in a variety of sizes , or build steps to the exact dimensions from concrete , for which you will have to set up formwork . |
| 11 | Northamptonshire is a county rich with fortified sites from Iron Age hillforts to Saxon ‘ burhs ’ , from Norman castles of earth and timber to the stone built castles of the 12th to 14th century . |
| 12 | I remember the days when , as a small child , I was taken around boatyards , harbours and rivers to admire boat after boat , while he built castles in the air about owning one . |
| 13 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 14 | The Banbury-based design house built cars for the ill-fated Andrea Moda team in 1992 and it is believed Bravo F1 will purchase equipment from the defunct Italian outfit . |
| 15 | Does he agree that not only do those excellent schemes make a positive contribution towards crime prevention , but they build bridges between the police and the community ? |
| 16 | They fear that welfare is being privatised : if charities build shelters for the homeless and philanthropists feed the poor , the government saves money . |
| 17 | In 1575 , he built Almshouses for the poor at East Greenwich , the first of their kind founded by a Protestant at a cost of more than £2,700 , and in 1581 , he published another work on the Duties of Constables , Borsholders , Tythingmen and other law and Lay ministers of the Peace . |
| 18 | Although we were city kids , we built dens in the fields behind the estate and harvested bluebells and brambles . |
| 19 | We are again one step ahead of the legislators and are conforming to the Environment Protection Act 's ‘ Duty of care ’ by installing our own purpose built incinerators throughout the country . |
| 20 | In the public gardens small children built forts with the gravel . |
| 21 | Owned by the ‘ Palais de Dance and Cinema Company ’ , it was one of the first large custom built ballrooms in the city of Edinburgh . |
| 22 | ‘ Every summer we used to go to the seaside in Croatia , and I built sandcastles with the other children . |
| 23 | In the fifth century many buildings were destroyed in the Goth and Vandal invasions and , later , Christians built churches in the temple ruins . |
| 24 | It is probably one of the newest purpose built grounds in the Football league and can hold about 12,000 spectators . |
| 25 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 26 | They 'd built estates after the war with no amenities at all and they did n't learn from that either . |
| 27 | He had built pianos by the end of the 17th century , but the three pianos by him that still exist were made in the 17205 . |
| 28 | Penn says that engineers have built chips on the outside of cylindrical substrates . |
| 29 | Such a dramatic movement of peoples could not have been undertaken by any other contemporary transportation method , and must reflect remarkable activity at the hundreds of newly built stations throughout the system . |
| 30 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |