Example sentences of "build on [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work has also been done with English and communications skills staff who have been offered separate introductory courses which build on their existing expertise in language analysis . |
| 2 | They arrived on the coat-tails of the brief interest in ska music at the end of the Seventies with their lively but inconsequential ‘ The Prince ’ and ‘ One Step Beyond ’ , but they quickly built on their early success with ‘ My Girl ’ and ‘ Baggy Trousers ’ . |
| 3 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 4 | Two years on , Pool have built on their deserved promotion of last year , banishing all fears of a relegation rebound , their fate in 1968–69 when the club last enjoyed life beyond the bottom division . |
| 5 | This encourages learners to build on their existing knowledge of their mother tongue to try and predict the codes of another language through analysis , comparison , and hypothesis . |
| 6 | Students are encouraged to build on their existing knowledge of their mother tongue to try and predict the codes of another language . |
| 7 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 8 | It concerns an informal training scheme developed by a voluntary youth work agency , which decided to build on its existing contacts with a group of long-term unemployed young people by offering a course combining social skills with basic business skills . |
| 9 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 10 | She arrives keen to build on its well-established links with local business and the local community . |
| 11 | The President also stated that it was time " to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe " and time " to build on our new relationship with the Soviet Union ; to endorse and encourage a peaceful process of internal change towards democracy and economic opportunity " . |
| 12 | We are concerned to continue to build on our magnificent record in improving the delivery of health care . |
| 13 | I am concerned to ensure that we continue to build on our excellent record of improving health care in Scotland . |
| 14 | Frame Technology also seems to be rapidly building on its growing acceptance with Next , Hewlett-Packard and Hell-Xenotron all adopting it as an OEM product . |
| 15 | This builds on their existing knowledge of local services and the potential for their development . |
| 16 | At the theoretical level this research builds on our previous work by examining the relationship between political and administrative pressures for change ; the former channelled through the political parties and their governments and the latter through the various branches of the state bureaucracy . |