Example sentences of "[noun pl] build up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 2 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 3 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 4 | It used to take centuries to build up a centimetre or two of topsoil . |
| 5 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is therefore potential for such trusts to build up a stake in Newco for the benefit of employees on a much more tax-efficient basis than if employees themselves used their after-tax earnings to acquire shares and then had to pay income tax or capital gains tax when they disposed of them . |
| 8 | As the factory operates on shifts throughout every 24 hour period , there are always more workers building up a hunger and thirst . |
| 9 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 10 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 11 | Antiquarian observers built up a picture of an important urban complex enclosed by a stone wall , within which traces of an irregular street system and numerous buildings were visible , some with evidence for tessellated pavements and painted wall plaster . |
| 12 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 13 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 14 | ‘ The Streamline English course has proved that it is one of the best , if not the best , methods on the market today to encourage students with a wide spectrum abilities to build up a fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | THE PTA at St Luke 's RC Primary School , has turned its fund-raising efforts to build up the stock of books . |
| 17 | The Pharos single market adviser is a computer programme allowing companies with IBM compatible machines to build up a profile of their business by asking a series of questions . |
| 18 | It is difficult to see this changing dramatically in spite of attempts to build up the position of the NHS Management Executive and timely clarifications of its role and relationships with the Policy Board , chaired by the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8 ) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity . |
| 20 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 21 | Taekwondo practitioners build up the calluses on their knuckles by performing press-ups on them , although there is evidence that prolonged conditioning in this way causes metacarpal damage . |
| 22 | There could be other reasons why work left London though , and in the case of the new firms springing up in the Home Counties and the West Country , low rents rather than low wages appear to have helped Bungay , Frome and other centres to build up a clientele . |
| 23 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 24 | In this way , the new church will recover one of the prime New Testament gifts to build up the church . |
| 25 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 26 | Children 's departments built up a body of social work expertise , and gradually extended their activities , from work to deal with the acute child care problems into work designed to prevent child neglect and abuse and work with delinquent children . |
| 27 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 28 | It , therefore , has two schemes that provide for longer terms funding for particular departments to build up a research programme in a particular area : there are now 150 of these groups at German universities . |
| 29 | From their experiences children build up a set of explanations and beliefs which enable them to make sense of what happens around them . |
| 30 | Pupils may be invited to play at being a detective to resolve some mystery , or they might investigate the contents of a seaman 's chest , a collection of craftsman 's tools , or a doctor 's bag , or a lady 's valise , for example to help pupils to build up a picture of the people who used them . |