Example sentences of "build up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties . |
| 2 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 3 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 4 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 5 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 6 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 7 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 8 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 9 | This had built up the present balance to what it now was . |
| 10 | Male bees , over many generations of cumulative orchid evolution , have built up the bee-like shape through trying to copulate with flowers , and hence carrying pollen . |
| 11 | Stewart-David completed the Val conversions and also built up the droppable torpedoes and bombs to be used . |
| 12 | Co-location of staffs would help to break down barriers between the Services , and the development of tri-Service staffs at lower levels would also build up the necessary expertise . |
| 13 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 14 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 15 | It will selectively build up the thinned fibres , across which osmotic diffusion will be most rapid . |
| 16 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 17 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 18 | It is just a matter of how you can build up the Kuwaiti nationality to go along with the growing community in the country and we were just a developing country . |
| 19 | Consistently good water quality and a stress-free environment builds up the natural resistance of your fish , so they can shrug off minor ailments . |
| 20 | During a visit to Darlington Memorial Hospital , where she visited the children 's ward , Ms Harman said the Government was starving the NHS of resources while building up the private sector . |
| 21 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 22 | Noting that the EC central bank proposed by Delors would not be accountable to elected governments , Major proposed instead to build on to Stage 1 further steps to promote convergence of economic performance , low inflation and stable exchange rates by building up the existing EC currency , the ECU . |
| 23 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 24 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 25 | Demand on the system grew faster than expected ( thus building up the economic usage of the Supergrid rapidly and increasing the efficiency gains ) . |
| 26 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 27 | Nor has it made building up the industrial base an objective . |
| 28 | The rest of the melted material reaches the surface and is erupted as lava and ashes , building up the narrow chain of volcanoes that runs the whole way up the South American continent . |
| 29 | I wish they would adopt the positive principle of looking at something and seeing the good in it — seeing how it can be improved by building up the positive aspects . |
| 30 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |