Example sentences of "build up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice . |
| 2 | Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner . |
| 3 | Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor . |
| 4 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |
| 5 | The technology businesses built up since 1985 include Gulfstream Aerospace , known for producing corporate jets . |
| 6 | And the leadership in VLSI ( very large-scale integration ) technology built up since 1976 puts Japan in a good position to move into the vanguard in future developments in computers . |
| 7 | The appearance of a sensitive strategy for the future development of Wales , the first review for a quarter of a century , is a timely reminder of the skill and experience in planning built up since the creation of the Welsh counties in 1974 . |
| 8 | Their Spam recipes , built up since 1957 , include Spam kebabs , Spamish omelette , Spam pizza , Spam moussaka , Spam stirfry and Spam stroganoff . |
| 9 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 10 | The rivers , too , will have a good flush through , removing a lot of the silt that built up during the drought . |
| 11 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 12 | Whittingham says : ‘ I got a real stamina bank built up during the summer and , once I started scoring goals , my self-confidence was sky-high . |
| 13 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 14 | In the first place , population decline means less than optimum use of the urban infrastructure built up during the major redevelopment phase of the later 1960s and 1970s . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 16 | The computer can fight on the behalf of both boxers and the outcome is based upon the fighters statistics that they built up during numerous bouts . |
| 17 | This convinced all but the Party members that the Communists had abandoned their previous opposition to Fascism and simply removed the core of the alliances built up during the Unity campaigns . |
| 18 | All assets built up during the marriage should be regarded as jointly owned and therefore jointly divided on divorce , apart from those which are clearly intended for one party or the other through a specific gift or bequest . |
| 19 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 20 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 21 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 22 | Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe . |
| 23 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 24 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 25 | The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit . |
| 26 | The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation . |
| 27 | It would not , frankly , be totally surprising if — somewhere between Strasbourg this weekend and an EMU vesting date in the middle nineties — the tide of history began to dissolve the fabric of a Community built up over decades . |
| 28 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 29 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 30 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |