Example sentences of "built [adv prt] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |
| 2 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 3 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 4 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 5 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 6 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |
| 7 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 8 | The stocking level would be built up over the weeks . |
| 9 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 10 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 11 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 12 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 13 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 14 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 15 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 16 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 17 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 18 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 19 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 20 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 21 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 22 | The University Library has built up over the years one of the finest collections of African studies in higher education . |
| 23 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 24 | There are cert certain categories of business that we 've built up over the year . |
| 25 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 26 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 27 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 28 | At other points the road was built out over the river , at one point over the top of former pilchard cellars , still to be seen . |
| 29 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |