Example sentences of "build up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 2 | As economic problems built up in 1920 , so the expenses of the housing programme became evident . |
| 3 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 4 | Yet here is a natural means of self-gratification and of relief from sexual tensions which build up in all of us , which is widely viewed ( regardless of whether it is practised ) as somehow wicked , aberrant , distasteful or shameful . |
| 5 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 6 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 7 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 8 | Corpora were built up in each case to over 10,000 words , then domain-specific collocation dictionaries compiled using the method described earlier . |
| 9 | By the use of one-way valves , air pressure can be built up in each chamber in turn by moving the piston back and forth . |
| 10 | Quite different from the cacophony of patterns and painting styles which characterised his work of a decade ago , they employ greater expanses of pure colour and favour passages of thick impasto laboriously built up in acrylic paints . |
| 11 | In this situation the US government could not maintain the inflated hopes about détente which had built up in 1971–3 . |
| 12 | The husband is also , of course , the victim of this ruse , but in none of the Italian versions is he built up in any way to provide a substantial target figure . |
| 13 | The dome diminishes in thickness from nearly 20 feet at the springing to almost 5 feet at the crown and it is built up in horizontal layers of brickwork and concrete where the cement mixture is varied so that the specific gravity diminishes with increasing height . |
| 14 | The incidents occurred after tensions had built up in these areas during April between the Croatian authorities and Serbian militants , exacerbated by the presence of the Serbian-dominated JNA which had entered Kijevo on April 29 [ see p. 38163 ] . |
| 15 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 16 | The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block . |
| 17 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
| 18 | Political power can be built up in this way , with the result that many Latin American leaders owe their position to a network of clientelist relationships . |
| 19 | Although some excellent bookstocks were built up in this manner , the disadvantages of such a system are clear . |
| 20 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 21 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 22 | The banks are often built up in this manner above the level of the surrounding marsh , rather like the levees of a meandering river being built up above the level of the floodplain . |
| 23 | A rich and powerful language is built up in this way . |
| 24 | This was because of the vast trade which had built up in trans-border data flow — the international exchange across frontiers of electronically processed information . |
| 25 | Stipple is a black messy stuff that is used to simulate the years of dirt and grime that can build up in all those little nooks and crannies . |
| 26 | It could be a hazard only where it might build up in poorly ventilated buildings . |
| 27 | Bone assemblages may build up in such cases because of the favoured use of particular parts of the cave for year after year , and similar large accumulations of bat skeletons may also build up beneath favoured roosting sites in caves or hollow trees . |
| 28 | So in terms of equality of access to service , just like I was talking about with elderly people , people with families do n't have an equality of access and what we 're trying to do is build up in those other areas those services . |
| 29 | But already McCreery had noted the critical situation building up in 5 Corps area reported in the earlier signal , 0.410 , and had begun to take action . |
| 30 | The most immediate problem facing central government appears to be the intense pressure building up in southern England . |