Example sentences of "build up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 2 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 3 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 4 | They are the Brockman River 1990 Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1991 Chardonnay , products of the Chittering Estate Winemaker Steve Scapera learned his art in California and last year built up exports to the American market to 41 million . |
| 5 | After leaving Eton , he built up interests in food , clothing , pharmaceuticals , shops , mining and forestry . |
| 6 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 7 | These successive submarine eruptions built up layers of material which eventually emerged above the ocean 's surface as a small island , and coral reefs formed around its edge . |
| 8 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 9 | A limited marine transgression in the Roman period caused the formation of salt marsh in the northern part of the Fens , while the Fen rivers aggraded their courses and built up levees of silt . |
| 10 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 11 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 12 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 13 | Once you start paying the full rate , you build up benefits in your own right . |
| 14 | Build up exposure in early mornings and late afternoons , when the sun is weaker . |
| 15 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 16 | I know there , there was quite a lot of encouragement to actually leave your dividend in and build up interest on it . |
| 17 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 18 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 19 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 20 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 21 | Examples XV ( a ) Let unc then its orthogonal matrix X is unc which yields unc We build up L as the product |
| 22 | Erm , now what you do with this , these sections is of course you build up information over time . |
| 23 | Draughting machines build up information about components in the computer memory . |
| 24 | Well you 're , you 're saying that you build up information about so you 're actually writing that information on these |
| 25 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 26 | Such issues grew out of my reflections upon the images of school which were built up incident by incident , interview by interview , comment by comment . |
| 27 | Ransome kept her on the River Orwell just below Ipswich , at the peaceful little anchorage of Pin Mill where the National Trust has built up holdings of land . |
| 28 | For more than a decade , OSO and oil companies , including British Petroleum , have built up contacts in China in spite of drilling being restricted previously to some offshore areas with little commercial potential . |
| 29 | This applies where two companies have used identical or similar marks for at least five years or more in all honesty and have built up goodwill in ignorance of the use of the mark by the other company . |
| 30 | Much time is spent by teacher-librarians in secondary schools in giving pupils busy introductions to reference books and library catalogues , and we saw in Chapter 3 how tutor-librarians in technical institutions along Hertfordshire lines had built up programmes of instruction in all aspects of information-seeking . |