Example sentences of "building up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 3 | Starting from Birkdale Summit , an initial detour may be made to look into the open shaft of Jingling Pot nearby , after which a pathless course must be steered south-west across tedious grass to reach and climb the rough slopes building up to the Edge . |
| 4 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 5 | Such a programme would create 124 000 jobs immediately , building up to 155 000 over two years . |
| 6 | The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April . |
| 7 | Starting with a small dose of nystatin , and gradually building up to the full dose , also helps to avoid a Herxheimer reaction . |
| 8 | Low rumblings pulsating , throbbing in the orchestra , building up to ferocious explosions of energy , exotic percussion and birdsong streaked through the texture , Indian melodic patterns woven into it , all in some of the most imaginative , kaleidoscope scoring ever devised . |
| 9 | Always brush towards the heart and start with a gently pressure , building up to what feels comfortable for you . |
| 10 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 11 | In its first year the plant will process 500 BMWs , building up to its capacity of 2,500 , by operating as a factory in reverse — working on the premise that everything that is bolted , welded , glued , screwed or sewn in can be used again . |
| 12 | The stocking rate , for a fish only aquarium , is 1″ of fish for every 4 gallons nett ( 20″ in your case ) in the first six months , building up to 1″ for every 2 gallons over the next month ( 40″ for your tank ) . |
| 13 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 14 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 15 | The years passed and each winter the starlings returned , numbers building up to a peak in March . |
| 16 | Democracy continued to be refounded ‘ from below ’ with such elections , gradually building up to Länder ( provincial ) level . |
| 17 | This collection is the result of spending 10 months experimenting with different papers , allowing the image to be worked out ‘ in an organic way ’ as she describes defying the confines of the papers ’ rectangle by rearing and adding and building up to works with dimensions reaching over four foot . |
| 18 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 19 | It is wise to plan for this and to keep in mind the possibility of building up to having video installed in a percentage of the classrooms . |
| 20 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 21 | The programme is built around a series of day cruises , building up to some long and ambitious trips exploring the islands in Wayfarer dinghies , so every morning starts with a briefing . |
| 22 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 23 | They opened , from scratch , within seven weeks to see 800 people fight their way through the store on opening day , building up to 1,000 by the first Saturday . |
| 24 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 25 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 26 | If you encounter such words , practise them systematically by a ) tapping the rhythm , b ) mimicking the last few syllables and then gradually building up to the beginning of the word , c ) putting the long word in different position on a series of sentences and practising them , like in following example : Word stress is often modified when the word occurs in a sentence . |
| 27 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 28 | The demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square was the first of two protest events building up to tomorrow 's Guy Fawkes celebrations . |
| 29 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |
| 30 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |