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

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1 Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner .
2 A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice .
3 Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor .
4 The appearance of a sensitive strategy for the future development of Wales , the first review for a quarter of a century , is a timely reminder of the skill and experience in planning built up since the creation of the Welsh counties in 1974 .
5 The rivers , too , will have a good flush through , removing a lot of the silt that built up during the drought .
6 Whittingham says : ‘ I got a real stamina bank built up during the summer and , once I started scoring goals , my self-confidence was sky-high .
7 For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial .
8 In the first place , population decline means less than optimum use of the urban infrastructure built up during the major redevelopment phase of the later 1960s and 1970s .
9 This convinced all but the Party members that the Communists had abandoned their previous opposition to Fascism and simply removed the core of the alliances built up during the Unity campaigns .
10 All assets built up during the marriage should be regarded as jointly owned and therefore jointly divided on divorce , apart from those which are clearly intended for one party or the other through a specific gift or bequest .
11 It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish .
12 Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe .
13 The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come .
14 The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit .
15 Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude .
16 To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime .
17 Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ?
18 Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station .
19 But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment .
20 The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe .
21 It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education .
22 The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers .
23 The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial .
24 The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years .
25 Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries .
26 Much of the pollution is caused by a backlog of fertilizers , built up over the last 30 years , seeping into the groundwater which feeds many of the dykes .
27 In most liberal democracies it has gradually been supplemented by a new plebiscitary politics , based on the cult of charismatic leaders built up through the mass media .
28 Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’
29 The elaborate network of " sympathizing mass organizations " built up through the Comintern by Willi Muenzenberg was not only maintained but rapidly expanded .
30 All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists .
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