Example sentences of "they build up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 2 | By looking after customers ' interests , they built up their business . |
| 3 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 4 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 5 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 6 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 7 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 8 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 9 | Unhindered by the country 's lax competition rules , they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They built up from a working |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it 's still worth thousands of quid so to them that is there 're thousands erm er there 's quite a lot of things they built up . |
| 14 | well not directly , erm because the whole purpose of the divisionalization was to put the skill and expertise into each division , at the initial stage of erm divisionalization there were no other marketing people immediately in those other divisions , I was occasionally called on to assist but progressively as they built up there own marketing expertise then my needs were less , they needed me less . |
| 15 | Billions , into a deficit erm that there are large the problem we 're looking at now is these very large transfer of assets which people feel that they built up with their contributions and whether that 's right or not . |
| 16 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 17 | In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players . |
| 18 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 19 | The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome . |
| 20 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 21 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 22 | There are many different types of crystal — often they build up to form bladder stones which can be the size of a tennis ball ! |
| 23 | They build up in your tank , unless replaced by regular water changes , and while fish seem able to stand a steady build -up , however unpleasant it may be for them , new fish will die when introduced to higher levels . |
| 24 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 25 | They build up one structure which breaks down and flows into another . |
| 26 | They build up physical strength , stretching their limbs and testing their agility . |
| 27 | Window coatings not only impair transmissivity but , as they build up , selectively absorb certain wave-lengths . |
| 28 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 29 | They build up a taxonomy that relies on whether the preferences of the electorate are seen as fixed or varying and whether government capability is seen as strategic or responsive . |
| 30 | Albert then in turn discovers Celie 's true self and slowly they build up a trust and confide in each other . |