Example sentences of "build up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner .
2 In the first place , population decline means less than optimum use of the urban infrastructure built up during the major redevelopment phase of the later 1960s and 1970s .
3 The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit .
4 Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe .
5 In most liberal democracies it has gradually been supplemented by a new plebiscitary politics , based on the cult of charismatic leaders built up through the mass media .
6 An external 2-pole 5-way switch will then be needed and the circuit shown in Fig. 13 built up on a small board .
7 Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk .
8 Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 .
9 Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell .
10 His interest in media started as a by-product of buying the House of Fraser , initially a large department stores group built up by a nationalistic Scot , Lord Fraser of Annandale .
11 The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War .
12 He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s .
13 They built up from a working
14 These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous .
15 He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light .
16 Massive bottle-necks built up in the early spring on the railway network , at Koslov , west of Saratov on the route to Moscow and particularly at Balashov , between Saratov and Tsaritsyn on the west side of the Volga .
17 This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league .
18 In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s .
19 The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy .
20 Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens .
21 This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts .
22 But then , despite the gloss given by the court flatterers , the unspoken tensions in the palace eventually build up into a civil war which topples the old order .
23 The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks .
24 A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid .
25 The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union .
26 The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain .
27 Batty and Sterland play in tonight 's continue their fitness build up in the reserve game against Newcastle , tonight Wed and if they come through will be considered for the Boxing Day game at Blackburn .
28 Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle .
29 But again the songs ( whose content Comrade Wong resolutely translated for us in stage-whispers throughout ) harped on the great achievements of Mao , Chou and Hua , the last of whom seems to be being built up into a great leader matching his predecessors in stature .
30 Later study will fill in the spaces with key words of lesser rank , until the whole topic is built up into a coherent and connected body of knowledge .
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