Example sentences of "[be] built up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation .
2 George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years .
3 The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators .
4 Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin .
5 Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’
6 A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels .
7 These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market .
8 Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers .
9 Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands .
10 These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry .
11 As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States .
12 In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment .
13 A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure .
14 Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War .
15 The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk .
16 The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years .
17 Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands .
18 ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh .
19 Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching .
20 Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey .
21 Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment .
22 Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths .
23 Phonic In the phonic approach , words are built up from the sounds of the individual letters or groups of letters ( phonemes such as th , ph , and so on ) .
24 The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas .
25 The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas .
26 Polperro 's festivities fell five days later at St Peter 's Fair , and Quiller Couch beautifully described how a pile of tar barrels and wood would be built up on the beach for the entire village to gather around and see it lighted .
27 This is generally done in much the same way as a diagram would be built up on the screen .
28 This demand must not be built up at the expense of the core scientific activity of the Garden , however .
29 Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges .
30 Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ?
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