Example sentences of "built up a " in BNC.
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1 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
2 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
3 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
4 | Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans , mostly to small , independent film studios and heavily secured . |
5 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
6 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
7 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
10 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
11 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
12 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
13 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In Ipswich the development officer built up a register of possible workers through personal contacts or contact with local clubs , associations and the job centre . |
16 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
17 | Tom Cox and Lee Grant also scored as Colts built up a 6–0 lead . |
18 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
19 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
20 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
21 | The South Saxons whose numbers we shall never know with any accuracy , built up a complex Wealden farming system , backed by a communication network that can only have been an extension of the lesser economic roads of the Romano-Britons . |
22 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
23 | He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry . |
24 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
25 | The Midland built up a cash reserve of £2bn to meet any run on the bank once the loss was revealed , but the reserve was not needed . |
26 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
27 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
28 | ‘ Eric built up a wonderful relationship with the fans and we 'll never forget him telling us that he loved us when the team were parading the League trophy . ’ |
29 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
30 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |