Example sentences of "build up an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 2 | This set a delay and took the photographs corresponding to each half in turn , built up an array in the memory , and finally displayed the image . |
| 3 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 4 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 5 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 9 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 10 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 12 | If we may imagine bat brains as building up an image of the world analogous to our visual images , the pulse rate alone seems to suggest that the bat 's echo image might be at least as detailed and " continuous " as our visual image . |
| 13 | ‘ A climb on Snowdon is the perfect way to build up an appetite for Christmas dinner , ’ said organiser Mandy Whitehead . |
| 14 | Even before the final settlement was reached , Montgomerie , disillusioned by William 's stalling tactics and by the fact that his own personal political ambitions had been frustrated , turned to plotting , attempting to build up an alliance of Club members and Jacobites who would be able to " bring home King James in a Parliamentary way " . |
| 15 | To build up an impression of how metal use developed , many and various artefacts covering a long time span need to be examined . |
| 16 | I prefer to build up an image of character , personality and surroundings before establishing such details as name , date and so on . |
| 17 | Thus by fixing a suitable exposure , at which some cells contain logic 1 and the others logic 0 , it is possible to build up an image of the view area . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making . |
| 19 | The local study , which is on Birmingham , will utilise private papers , institutional records and the local press to build up an account of changing middle class attitudes to race and ethnicity over this period . |