Example sentences of "to build [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way . |
| 32 | But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers . |
| 33 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 34 | It is difficult to build details about the weekly press into this account , not least because of problems of definition . |
| 35 | The contract to build propellers for the new Hercules transport aircraft was won in the face of stiff competition from the Americans . |
| 36 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 37 | When a swarm of bees leave to found a new colony , they tend to build combs with the same orientation , say east-west , as the combs in their parent hive . |
| 38 | A pamphleteer opposing a " too generous " Poor Law in 1786 , noting that paupers were too easily allowed to build cottages on the waste and install themselves to become eventual burdens on the rates , remarked , " Happily the justices of the peace have no legal authority to augment the number of our cottages . |
| 39 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 40 | It was common for some to build footpaths across the lines and in other cases bridges were built . |
| 41 | He also obtained planning permission to build apartments above the auction rooms on Manhattans 's York Avenue ( currently postponed for obvious reasons ) . |
| 42 | The desperate need for more golf courses in the UK has already become a hot potato within the sport , but Keith Wright , Secretary of the English Golf Union , added fuel to the fire recently by claiming the way to satisfy the golf boom was to build courses for the average 18 handicap golfer . |
| 43 | ‘ We see no reason why a top quality college of technology like Darlington should not start to build links with the University of Durham , ’ said Mr Milburn . |
| 44 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 45 | Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level . |
| 46 | Increasing numbers , increasing opportunities , and new ideas proved solvents of the old hierarchy ; and it is only towards the end of our period that a new type of hierarchy , with ideals and aspirations of a novel sophistication , was beginning once again to build walls round the classes of society . |
| 47 | This is called parallel computing , and everyone trying to build supercomputers of the future has agreed it will be necessary to use it in some form . |
| 48 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 49 | During the night the wind had risen , skating sand over sand to build drifts against the windward side of the house . |