Example sentences of "building up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
| 2 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 3 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 4 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 5 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 6 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 7 | Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate . |
| 8 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 9 | Your learning must be a technique of building up knowledge in small doses , as articulated parts of a whole . |
| 10 | The personal involvement of the pupil , both at an individual and group level , is important in building up enthusiasm for learning . |
| 11 | In an opinion poll taken in December of that year on the question ‘ Which do you think is the more important for Britain to concentrate on : building up strength in atomic weapons and missiles , or in conventional weapons like troops , tanks and bombers ? ’ 52 per cent favoured the former , 8 per cent the latter , 22 per cent neither , wanting disarmament instead , and 18 per cent did not know . |
| 12 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 13 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |
| 14 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 15 | The most common of these is the high incidence of arthritic and rheumatic problems ; other specific examples include blindness and neurological problems associated with long-term diabetes ; chronic pain resulting from building up immunity to certain drugs , such as morphine ( various groups ) ; chronic respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity ( scoliosis ) ; and a variety of physiological problems coming under the heading of ‘ post-polio syndrome ’ . |