Example sentences of "[prep] build up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's about building up a character till you know everything . |
| 2 | Here the problem for the Labour leadership is even more difficult for there is no constitutional issue about building up a separate organization within the party . |
| 3 | Again , this is a very friendly area ideal for building up muscles and confidence . |
| 4 | Mr Cohen said there was ‘ great scope for building up a British-based group hand tools business over the next few years . ’ |
| 5 | It was a good time for building up the faculty . |
| 6 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
| 7 | In this chapter , techniques for building up systems of the joint influence of variables have been outlined , using differences in proportions as the measure of strength of effect . |
| 8 | The most common rates for building up a pension are 1/80th of earnings for each year you have been in the scheme , or l/60th . |
| 9 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 10 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 11 | In addition , you 'll find this exercise is good for your alternate plucking and for building up both your left and right hand techniques . |
| 12 | Protein is important as the source of the raw materials for building up and repairing our body tissues and our enzymes , which are largely protein . |
| 13 | Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength . |
| 14 | One of the good features of the pond is that the soil extracted for the depth was reused for building up other areas of the pond , so there was no waste to dispose of . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 17 | The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 18 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 19 | It does n't it 's not good for building up relationships . |
| 20 | No , that 's for building up lumps of cash . |
| 21 | Although there are few certainties in the headhunting business , those firms which survived the 1970s are largely still in existence , and will probably continue to prosper , through building up a loyal client base . |
| 22 | England conceded two goals in the last quarter of an hour after building up a 3–1 lead . |
| 23 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 24 | AFTER building up its interests with the acquisition of Ultramar , the independent oil group , LASMO , is being forced by financial circumstances to sell off some of its North Sea holdings . |
| 25 | It should be added that for the sake of building up a realistic scenario for the exercise , incidents involving ‘ enemy ’ forces are interjected . |
| 26 | With this coherent team , in many ways bonded to the studio , Balcon set out to make films that mirrored what was happening to British society and fulfilled his aim of building up ‘ a native industry with its roots firmly planted in the soil of this country . ’ |
| 27 | This he believed would meet the political need without incurring the cost of building up a new fleet of surface ships and perpetrating the military nonsense of mixed manning . |
| 28 | One-sided relationships , however , can be not only hurtful but can spoil our chances of building up friendships with people who might care for us much more . |
| 29 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 30 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |