Example sentences of "to build [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wine celebrates life , the charoseth is for the bricks they were forced to bake to build cities for the loathed taskmasters . ’ |
| 2 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 3 | A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time . |
| 4 | There has always been a tendency to build houses for the dead to resemble houses for the living . |
| 5 | I was particularly interested to note that in the Whitefield area of Nelson in my hon. Friend 's constituency , largely occupied by ethnic minority households , a neighbourhood watch scheme has recently been set up and is helping to build bridges between the ethnic minority residents and the police . |
| 6 | To preserve the image and integrity of the profession and to build bridges between the existing gaps in our service it is necessary to unite and not to create divisions with personal prejudices . |
| 7 | But Mr Zogby of the Arab-American Institute believes that the war in the Gulf , far from setting the cause back , may be a moment of opportunity : ‘ The United States ’ , he says , ‘ now knows that it will need to build bridges to the Middle East . |
| 8 | Last June it established a venture with General Motors in the US to build robots for the American market , including GM 's plants . |
| 9 | It is difficult to build details about the weekly press into this account , not least because of problems of definition . |
| 10 | The contract to build propellers for the new Hercules transport aircraft was won in the face of stiff competition from the Americans . |
| 11 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 12 | During the night the wind had risen , skating sand over sand to build drifts against the windward side of the house . |