Example sentences of "to build up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 2 | George III employed Barnard as chief agent in his lifelong endeavour to build up a new collection , which later came to be known as the King 's Library . |
| 3 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 4 | And while research continues to build up a clearer picture of the distribution of radon across the country , environmental health officers are hoping that the new results will encourage local authorities to enforce strict building regulations . |
| 5 | Only some Suwaya were interested in this exercise of reconstruction , and the attempt to build up a rounded picture of life under Arab government exposed a certain impatience . |
| 6 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 7 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 8 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 9 | They are also proud they have managed to build up a good trade but after 15 years service at the Travellers Rest , Cockerton , the couple plan to quit in June . |
| 10 | The historian 's job is to judge the reliability and value of each source its turn , and by consulting all available sources , to build up a complete picture . |
| 11 | ABOVE TOP Typology is the study of the development of artefacts of the same type to build up a dated sequence . |
| 12 | The new scheme offered from today by EIGA is open to any European company or EC subsidiary of a foreign firm aiming to build up a Russian business empire . |
| 13 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 14 | Close study of applications and their results , including objections , enable the developer to build up a comprehensive survey of the current attitudes of the local planning authority to development proposals , and those sites likely to receive favourable consideration . |
| 15 | There were many subsequent raids , carried out by small patrols , and it is difficult to build up a comprehensive picture of exactly what took place . |
| 16 | The aim is to build up a comprehensive database on the Gault of the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | ‘ There is now a big push on to build up a healthy youth policy . |
| 18 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 19 | In this chapter some of the ways in which palaeontologists determine the way fossil animals lived are described , reanimating the dead fragments to build up a living creature . |
| 20 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 21 | A telephone conversation allows the opportunity to build up a personal relationship . |
| 22 | I ask them to build up a Personal Language Profile ( either on their own or by interviewing each other ) which they then share with others in the group . |
| 23 | Lengthy booklists are expensive and dull : with some time and effort it will be possible for you to build up a personal library and reference system which is individually geared to your particular needs , and one which helps you to build on your existing knowledge rather than attempting to start again from scratch . |
| 24 | If you are conscientious at organising your notes and materials so that they can be referred to easily , then you will quickly be able to build up a personal library and reference system . |
| 25 | He supported the alliance because to take the cooperative movement into the Labour Party wholly would not help the Labour Party : and it was necessary to build up a political consciousness in the movement so that cooperative ideals could be translated by political machinery . |
| 26 | From the response of these waves as they travel through the Earth it is possible to build up a general picture of the properties of its interior . |
| 27 | The other is to build up a cognitive map of the region to be traversed . |
| 28 | What worries me , said one Vice-Chancellor , is that the policy of the government is to leave the universities autonomous , as they are , with the implication that they are irresponsible , to stew in their own juice , while an attempt is made to build up a rival system , via the CNAA . |
| 29 | It can take three to six months of regular vigorous aerobic exercise to build up a powerful heart and lungs ; and it can take the same period of inactivity to lose it all . |
| 30 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |