Example sentences of "build up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
| 2 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 3 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 4 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 5 | He built up the textile , sugar and cement industries , he introduced electrification , and he embarked on a vastly ambitious railway across the country , linking the Persian Gulf to the Caspian . |
| 6 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 7 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 8 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 9 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 10 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 11 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 12 | It was half past one before they got back to Rose Cottage and there was no denying a brisk long country walk built up the appetite . |
| 13 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 14 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 15 | Neff built up the firm 's business in the USA not by dint of one overwhelming individual personality , as Roche had done for Heidrick and Struggles , but by exemplifying the success of the Spencer Stuart method of problem-solving in management crises across a range of corporate sectors . |
| 16 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 17 | He also built up the island 's banana trade . |
| 18 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 19 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 20 | They brought in the horses , hobbled them and built up the fire . |
| 21 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 22 | Second , it is possible that as the mass of the planet built up the volatiles were captured as gases from the planetary formation medium ( PFM ) by the gravitational field of the ( growing ) planet . |
| 23 | Rodgers and his wife built up the collection without the aid of a professional adviser , purchasing from dealers and at auction . |
| 24 | He also built up the railway 's fleet of passenger and cargo ships sailing to Ireland and the Continent from Goole , Fleetwood , and Liverpool ; by 1914 it was the largest of any of the British railway companies . |
| 25 | Through sheer organisational brilliance , Barés and de Rose had , by mid-April , built up the Verdun air strength to 226 machines ; a concentration which Falkenhayn , with his policy of security-on-all-fronts was unable , or unwilling , to emulate . |
| 26 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 27 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 28 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 29 | So always start with the minimum amount and gradually build up the tones until you reach the strength that emphasises , rather than overpowers . |
| 30 | Hence some kinds of reading lead to more intellectually-demanding thought , challenging ideas , concepts and structures that build up the skills of critical observation , bodies of knowledge , and , at a further stage , wisdom . |