Example sentences of "building [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This he believed would meet the political need without incurring the cost of building up a new fleet of surface ships and perpetrating the military nonsense of mixed manning .
2 Not rejecting them , not ceasing to love them , but slowly building up a new role and identity which no longer depends upon their presence for its satisfactory functioning .
3 In the east his men were in position , awaiting only his order to attack the Plantations , while to the west he was building up a new shape seeking new allies among the elite of City North America .
4 just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat .
5 By building up a good soil structure and providing conditions where all the natural soil flora and fauna can thrive , it is possible to realize the full potential of any piece of land , and to grow on it vigorous , healthy crops and livestock .
6 Building up a good head of the correct aerobic ( air using ) bacteria on the surface of your filter media is the first stage of good biological filtration .
7 Even if you succeed in building up a good practice as a junior your troubles will not be at an end , because at that point in your career you will have to decide whether to apply for silk .
8 The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference .
9 The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference .
10 After April 1988 , company schemes will have to begin building up a small widower 's pension for contracted out membership from that date onwards .
11 Are you building up a small library of essential books ?
12 The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation .
13 In tracking an evacuation build-up , RTMAS collects and cumulates net traffic movements , building up a quantitative picture of the timing and directions of evacuation .
14 We were classless , building up a mutual affection with those who watched us .
15 Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together .
16 The local church also plays a strategic role in building up a regional and national picture , the accuracy of which will depend upon the quality of the data which churches have amassed and are willing to divulge .
17 ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent .
18 By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres .
19 Although there are few certainties in the headhunting business , those firms which survived the 1970s are largely still in existence , and will probably continue to prosper , through building up a loyal client base .
20 He said the princess was building up a separate Kensington Palace court and international platform for herself , predicting : ‘ We will see the phoenix princess arising from the ashes of this whole crumbling mess of the monarchy .
21 Elena knew instinctively that by building up a separate cult of herself — in many ways more spurious and grotesque than anything created for her husband — she was laying the foundations for her own take-over in the event of Nicolae 's death .
22 Here the problem for the Labour leadership is even more difficult for there is no constitutional issue about building up a separate organization within the party .
23 Martha was building up a vast resource that was enabling her to ask and to tell , to hear and to enjoy .
24 Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases .
25 This partnership is part of our strategy of building up a long-term international profile by bilateral relationships with leading players in the major international markets for business education . ’
26 At this stage of recognition , using the Mothercare catalogue or the Ahlbergs ' witty The baby 's catalogue , the young reader is learning some of the conventions we have mentioned , is finding a relationship between the content of books and outside reality , building up a useful vocabulary , and — if this is happening in a relaxed and loving environment — having a good time .
27 But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back .
28 Secondly , on defence , the Foreign Secretary made it clear that , although Europe has an increasing role in respect of threats outside the NATO area , the movements towards building up a European defence identity must not weaken NATO or confront the Americans with a single European view .
29 ‘ We are really building up a European company , through common systems , by giving people a common language , and giving them a common experience . ’
30 The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe .
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