Example sentences of "build up a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 2 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 3 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 4 | The Midland built up a cash reserve of £2bn to meet any run on the bank once the loss was revealed , but the reserve was not needed . |
| 5 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 6 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes it is important for the individual to step back from the fray , ’ said , ‘ and describe to themselves what the work problems are and build up an action programme for themselves . |
| 8 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | Three years later her efforts have not gone unrewarded : both companies have been awarded the Small Firms Merit Award for Research and Technology ( SMART ) by the Department of Trade and Industry and the charity , Research in Cancer Immunology , has built up a capital base of £35,000 . |
| 10 | I have built up a rock structure to the water height in the middle of the tank . |
| 11 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 12 | He had not won an election , sung an aria , or even built up a business empire . |
| 13 | A computer whiz-kid , he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world . |
| 14 | Starting very gradually , they have built up an exercise routine for each patient designed to suit their particular needs and they have found that the results have been quite dramatic . |
| 15 | By patiently watching and recording hits we can build up a probability profile which will indicate how likely it is for a bullet to hit any particular point on the detector . |
| 16 | The point to emphasise is that the data is only of help to those who know the patient and can build up a case history . |
| 17 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 18 | By using overlays , one can build up a picture stage by stage . |
| 19 | In the dry season , when the flow of the river is less powerful , wave action from the sea builds up a sand bar at its mouth , blocking its exit . |
| 20 | What this model suggests is that the acquisition of complex behaviour is analogous to constructing a wall , a process of building up a structure brick by brick . |
| 21 | This means building up a peace culture in which mass media systems should play a leading role . |
| 22 | Under the scheme natural and historic sites considered by Unesco to be ‘ the patrimony of humanity ’ will be photographed and documented with the aim of building up a reference library of 40,000 photographs and relevant documentation which will be available to researchers . |
| 23 | You 're building up a knowledge base , you 're not just building up lots of odd facts like you know , how many people live in China , or |
| 24 | The Bulgarian Telecommunications Co , which last week gave contracts to Siemens AG , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Alcatel NV and Northern Telecom Ltd under its $300m modernisation programme , says it will announce two more foreign investors shortly : ‘ We will announce soon our partners for building up a surface satellite station and for introduction of a new digital overlay network , ’ Antoni Slavinski , deputy chairman told Reuter ; and a joint venture between Bulgarian Telecommunications Co and US Sprint International Inc will start operating on April 15 ; Sprint Business Telecommunications Co will enable customers in Bulgaria to link host and personal computers with others around the world , and says it already has some 50 applications , mostly from foreign companies operating in Bulgaria . |
| 25 | Reformist government ministers used the press revelations to support their claims that Khasbulatov was building up a power base . |
| 26 | Vicky left IMG to make her own mark and has been steadily building up a quality client list . |
| 27 | Whatever your aims , building up a cash reserve for the future always makes sense . |
| 28 | Against this , many who take the plunge derive enormous satisfaction from building up a family enterprise . |
| 29 | This regretfully brought to an abrupt end his continuing work for the Building Employers Confederation as well as destroying a lifetime 's work in building up a family company . |
| 30 | Conran has never allowed his job to become mere routine and there is no doubt in his mind about the satisfaction he has derived from building up a business empire . |