Example sentences of "build [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 2 | It would not , frankly , be totally surprising if — somewhere between Strasbourg this weekend and an EMU vesting date in the middle nineties — the tide of history began to dissolve the fabric of a Community built up over decades . |
| 3 | It has begun to erode the banks which it built up over millennia . |
| 4 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 5 | The concept of charity is elusive , moving , embodied in a corpus of decided cases built up over centuries . |
| 6 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 7 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 8 | If there was a big bank at the back of the house they would have a hole just dug out and er built up with flagstones |
| 9 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 10 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 11 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 12 | But resentment built up among workers . |
| 13 | Coasts built up by plants and animals . |
| 14 | It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers . |
| 15 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 16 | Understanding of the dream built up in layers , over a long period of time . |
| 17 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 18 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 19 | The build up of fumes was too quick for safety checks to pinpoint . |
| 20 | Sometimes a few stones stick out of the grass to indicate this , but clumps of nettles give a general indication of former areas of occupation and of dung in houses and farmyards , because of the build up of phosphates in the soil . |
| 21 | This would cover budgets , contracts , pricing , income generation , asset acquisition and disposal , borrowing powers , build up of surpluses and reserve , management structures and , perhaps most importantly , freedom to employ and direct all their staff , including doctors and nurses , on their own locally determined pay and conditions ( Department of Health , 1989b ) . |
| 22 | The discussion so far has been oriented towards lessening the pressure caused by the build up of queues and ways of smoothing the flow of clients through a bureau . |
| 23 | The build up of leaves and moisture from the sap makes wheels slip but can also play havoc with track circuits which activate the signals system . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the lake ecology is now upset , and the waters are becoming eutrophic , with a build up of algae and dead plankton . |
| 25 | Speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union , Lin Callis of NASA suggested that up to 75 per cent of the decline could be a result of the fluctuating solar cycle , with a build up of electrons and neutrons breaking down the ozone . |
| 26 | Showing the history of the USAAF/USAF from 1931 to 1953 it shows the early development with B-10 bombers helping out during the flooding of 1935 , film is included of the first B-17s , a type that was delivered in 1937 , the expansion programmes of the late 1930s show the tremendous build up of men and machines . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the Soviet Union have good cause to be worried about the military build up of troops in Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | Trying to stop another huge build up of travellers in one area is a subject keeping several police forces across the region occupied . |
| 29 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 30 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |