Example sentences of "built up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 2 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 3 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 4 | These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market . |
| 5 | Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers . |
| 6 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 7 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 8 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 9 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 10 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |
| 11 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 12 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 13 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 14 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 15 | It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years . |
| 16 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |