Example sentences of "[noun] to build [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the night the wind had risen , skating sand over sand to build drifts against the windward side of the house . |
| 2 | The Housing Corporation has allocated £1.8m to housing associations to build homes in the Scarborough council area in the next financial year . |
| 3 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 4 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 5 | It is a chance to build relationships with the kids and to get close to just one or two of them . |
| 6 | The church first applied for planning permission to build houses on the site in 1988 , but because the reverend Sawyer had the right to object , nothing came of it . |
| 7 | He also obtained planning permission to build apartments above the auction rooms on Manhattans 's York Avenue ( currently postponed for obvious reasons ) . |
| 8 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | John Fairley , chairman of Grampian Property Partners , said : ‘ The plans to build homes for the first time is a significant move for housing co-operatives in the area and underlines our commitment to help meet the housing needs of people in Grampian . ’ |
| 11 | It was that massive research and development effort , unprecedented in yachting , that prompted his decision to build yachts for the America 's Cup . |
| 12 | The contract to build propellers for the new Hercules transport aircraft was won in the face of stiff competition from the Americans . |
| 13 | Is my hon. Friend aware that although it would be wasteful , unnecessary and expensive to renationalise the National Grid Company , the company has incurred great unpopularity due to its proposals to build pylons through the finest parts of our rural landscape in Cleveland ? |
| 14 | Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level . |
| 15 | In June and October 1905 , there were proposals in other quarters to build tramways from the Crystal Palace to Thornton Heath and from the Crystal Palace along Crystal Palace Parade . |
| 16 | Last June it established a venture with General Motors in the US to build robots for the American market , including GM 's plants . |
| 17 | A scheme to build homes on the site of Whitby Seafood factory in Larpool Lane , Whitby , has been submitted to Scarborough Council . |
| 18 | There has always been a tendency to build houses for the dead to resemble houses for the living . |
| 19 | We would need their agreement to build houses outside the city boundary and you know that this is part of what the Steering Committee will propose … |