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

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1 The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill .
2 ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’
3 To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week .
4 A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level .
5 He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane .
6 But he must take care that what he creates builds up to a monolithic whole .
7 The noise builds up to a shattering roar .
8 the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money .
9 Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work .
10 They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next .
11 The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak .
12 The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April .
13 Starting with a small dose of nystatin , and gradually building up to the full dose , also helps to avoid a Herxheimer reaction .
14 The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere .
15 Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women .
16 Prices start at £500,000 for a configuration of just one or two CPUs to which additional processors and crossbar networks can be connected , to build up to the full eight-processor C3800 series .
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