Example sentences of "build up [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 2 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 5 | It will coordinate scientific and technical research , prepare advice on the elimination of ozone-destroying substances , and build up a database on the production , consumption , use , export and import of such substances . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 8 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 9 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 10 | You start building up a dossier on all known facts about the International Continental Union Bank , US . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 12 | I use this basic method of building up the design on a bed of leaves , as it gives a good three-dimensional effect , but there are several other ways to achieve an equally pleasing design . |
| 13 | This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs . |
| 14 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | There 's no real reason why you , say , should n't start to build up the data on that . |
| 16 | What sets this theme apart is the way Britten harps on it once it has emerged and uses it , in a number of variants , to build up the pressure on Grimes until he starts to break under the strain . |