Example sentences of "build up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 2 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 3 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 4 | In general Golding built up Piggy 's character by only stressing his bad points , so that Piggy could get full sympathy from the reader . |
| 5 | This built up finance , but , perhaps more importantly , built up in the community a knowledge of the organisation and about deafness . |
| 6 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 7 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 8 | Establish credibility through success : build up user confidence through previous success , thereby promoting cooperation and lowering barriers . |
| 9 | The egg shape is a clue to building in the sense of rhythm when drawing the small birds ; you can practise drawing ovals and thus build up bird shapes . |
| 10 | New tillage practices also reduce loss of soil moisture to increase yields , build up humus formation , and encourage a net increase in the natural production of soil nutrients . |
| 11 | Build up exposure in early mornings and late afternoons , when the sun is weaker . |
| 12 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 13 | If the independent business has one staff member who regularly uses the computer equipment and sufficiently interested to study the manuals , that person will , given encouragement , build up expertise which can usefully be passed on . |
| 14 | We build up expertise . |
| 15 | Border runners build up mileage |
| 16 | " In a small garden , I think it 's nice to use lots so that you can move them around and build up height where you might not have any . |
| 17 | ‘ Coming in as an outsider probably helped as a bit of a catalyst but really it was the fact that we were at the bottom of the underwriting cycle and everyone was looking to improve results and build up market share . ’ |
| 18 | I know there , there was quite a lot of encouragement to actually leave your dividend in and build up interest on it . |
| 19 | Usually after one or two turns these gliders will unstall themselves and build up speed rapidly in a spiralling dive . |
| 20 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 21 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 22 | Several butterflies , such as the wall ( Lasiommata megera ) and meadow brown ( Maniola jurtina ) , also quickly build up breeding populations . |
| 23 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 24 | The truth of the matter is that theory is derived from findings which are put together , and the logical relations between findings together build up theory . |
| 25 | Draughting machines build up information about components in the computer memory . |
| 26 | Erm , now what you do with this , these sections is of course you build up information over time . |
| 27 | Well you 're , you 're saying that you build up information about so you 're actually writing that information on these |
| 28 | Such issues grew out of my reflections upon the images of school which were built up incident by incident , interview by interview , comment by comment . |
| 29 | Now we 've decided not to do that little built up wall affair at the front |
| 30 | This applies where two companies have used identical or similar marks for at least five years or more in all honesty and have built up goodwill in ignorance of the use of the mark by the other company . |