Example sentences of "built up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 2 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 3 | In Ipswich the development officer built up a register of possible workers through personal contacts or contact with local clubs , associations and the job centre . |
| 4 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
| 5 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 6 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
| 7 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 8 | During the Thatcher years , James Hanson built up a £10bn business empire through a series of audacious takeovers and acquired a peerage in the process . |
| 9 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 10 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
| 11 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 12 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 13 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 14 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 15 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 16 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 17 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 18 | The pilot has already spent twenty five years in the movie business and built up a collection of classic planes . |
| 19 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 20 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 21 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 22 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 23 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 24 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
| 25 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 26 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 27 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
| 28 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 29 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |
| 30 | Antiquarian observers built up a picture of an important urban complex enclosed by a stone wall , within which traces of an irregular street system and numerous buildings were visible , some with evidence for tessellated pavements and painted wall plaster . |