Example sentences of "[verb] build up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At Leyland , Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses .
2 In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality .
3 He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support .
4 Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music .
5 Similarly , the MSc/Diploma in Community Education has built up a reputation within the UK but is also strongly supported by agencies funding students from overseas .
6 Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket .
7 To maximise Milan 's chances of doing well in the Italian league , the national cup and the European Cup at the same time , Mr Berlusconi has built up a squad of players that can field two top-rate sides .
8 Over the centuries carving has built up a range of chisels and gouges , the names of which are as esoteric as the craft itself
9 In the intervening months the Labour Party has built up a range of policies for education , science and industry which will help Britain build the strong , competitive economy it so desperately needs .
10 Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing .
11 A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government .
12 In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased .
13 Sharelink has built up a clientele of about 57,000 in two years .
14 Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London .
15 Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London .
16 Those who do not can afford to take that line , presumably , because over time the system has built up a stock of people and procedures which allow it to evolve almost under its own momentum .
17 Dr O'Sullivan , who lives in Chester , has built up a collection of 1,700 cartoons he can use as part of his occupational health treatment .
18 The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees .
19 I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years .
20 On the rare occasions when the Indian does seek to build up a reserve for himself , he squanders it at once .
21 Most PR executives will need to build up a repertoire of photographers who are skilled in the various areas covered by the media relations programme .
22 Not only do we need to build up a collection of RBGE staff publications , but we should also ensure that external researchers given significant access to RBGE facilities agree to deposit copies of their publications , reports and theses within the Library as a condition of use .
23 Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making .
24 I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri .
25 His first objective was to restore the authority of Soviet socialism by economic reform and political democratisation ; the second , much more ambitious objective was to reposition Soviet communism in relation to the European tradition from which it had originally emerged , seeking to build up a coalition of working class , religious , ecological , youth and other forces which could unite around the slogan of peace and social justice , if not necessarily Marxism-Leninism .
26 These did not come from either the Tate Gallery or the Victoria and Albert Museum , the institutions with the relevant collections , but almost certainly from , among others , Agnews , the firm which , ironically , helped build up the collection in the nineteenth century .
27 When you begin to fly your model in circuits regularly , do be sure to practice both right and left hand circuits to avoid building up a bias towards one particular direction .
28 A few coats may be needed to build up the surface over deeper blemishes .
29 Over time , more complex social routines may be established as adult and infant begin to build up a set of expectancies or joint understandings regarding the meanings of particular behaviours .
30 Video is being used to build up a library of training films to keep new employees at Thatcher Tubes in Washington Court House , Ohio , USA , informed about process techniques .
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