Example sentences of "[vb mod] build up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
| 2 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 3 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 4 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 5 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 6 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 7 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 8 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 9 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
| 10 | ‘ If we can map the isotopic composition of lead in the region we are looking at , ie the Mediterranean , ’ said Gail , ‘ then we can build up a database of trade movement ’ . |
| 11 | In this way , we can build up a profile for expected three month interest rates , shown in the right hand column of Table 6.6 . |
| 12 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 13 | This statement may seem nonsense , since you have no idea of how the lecturer is to tackle the subject , but by means of a pattern diagram you can build up a picture of what your studies are to contain . |
| 14 | Most important , you can build up a collection of notes as part of your own library of books , newspaper cuttings , essays and other materials that you should find invaluable for tutorials , essays , projects and exam revision . |
| 15 | — institutions with video cameras and editing equipment can build up a collection of their own materials . |
| 16 | As a Member of The Folio Society , you can build up a collection of superb books that are marvellous to read , beautiful to look at , and available only to Members . |