Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] picture " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 2 | Only some Suwaya were interested in this exercise of reconstruction , and the attempt to build up a rounded picture of life under Arab government exposed a certain impatience . |
| 3 | The historian 's job is to judge the reliability and value of each source its turn , and by consulting all available sources , to build up a complete picture . |
| 4 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 5 | There were many subsequent raids , carried out by small patrols , and it is difficult to build up a comprehensive picture of exactly what took place . |
| 6 | From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior . |
| 7 | I 'm beginning to build up a vague picture of this man . |
| 8 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 9 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 10 | Examining a number of artefacts of the same period can help to build up a composite picture of a society and culture . |
| 11 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the general approach is broadly the same , working with small groups of data and finding links between them in an attempt to build up a coherent picture of the past . |
| 13 | Performance monitoring is particularly important , and indicators need to be established to enable both risk and risk management system performance to be monitored , using both actual records of loss and ‘ near misses ’ to build up a true picture . |
| 14 | As the JMU random visit programme goes into its second year we need to find better ways of isolating the representative results from those of the reactive , com-plaint-led , visits , and learn to interpret them statistically to build up a reliable picture of the auditing profession , its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 15 | In addition , the researchers are using The Mercury 's coverage of national events and events outside Leicestershire in order to build up a national picture . |
| 16 | On the basis of the pilot , we are starting to build up a clear picture of how general SVQs are working in practice . |