Example sentences of "to build up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 2 | And he still found time to build up vast interests in meat packing and combine-harvesting giants . |
| 3 | Ideally , research may be able to build up similar values for equine athletes which could be used by riders and trainers to avoid injuries . |
| 4 | Ferdinand , desperate to be accepted by the cognoscenti and to build up political influence , flaunted his lavishness by building a gigantic French château of bright yellow Bath stone With 222 rooms , and by planting hundreds of fully grown trees on the high bare hill on which it stood . |
| 5 | Crossman urged that the government begin to build up political intelligence about Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Virgilio Avila Vivas replaced Alejandro Izaguirre Angeli as Minister of the Interior , an appointment seen as a move to build up political support for the efforts of the security forces to deal with increasing protests against the government 's economic policies [ but see below for his replacement ; for November 1991 protests , see p. 35571 ] . |
| 7 | Increased ability to learn directly from the environment evolved to allow organisms to acquire new information and thus to build up simple programmes of response to such exigencies . |
| 8 | Feed dahlias fortnightly to build up strong tubers |
| 9 | Climbers usually need only a light pruning , ( a ) , to build up strong main stems and develop lateral side shoots . |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ We are trying to build up close relationships with the Asian community . |
| 11 | In selling direct to a customer overseas , there is the opportunity to build up close relationships with individual customers , based upon trust , commitment and understanding . |
| 12 | Also , I like to build up dark areas in this way , spray-fix and then apply lighter tones over the top , as in the foliage areas of the painting . |
| 13 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 14 | We believe that government should not gobble up all the proceeds of growth , and that those who create prosperity should enjoy it , through lower taxes and more opportunity to build up personal wealth . |
| 15 | Nor is vigorous participation in the parliamentary process encouraged by the need for members of the parliament to build up personal networks of connections to advance their careers . |
| 16 | These moves have gone down fairly well in most quarters though again political cynics see decentralisation as a long-term ploy by Chevenement to build up personal political support in the provinces . |
| 17 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 18 | To try to build up primary care while running down Barts and other hospitals is like shooting your dog in order to get a cat . |
| 19 | This examination incorporates financial , language and commercial components and support those people who want to build up essential business skills . |
| 20 | In an unusual example of global cooperation , countries that run these craft swap data freely to enable scientists in many parts of the world to build up comprehensive weather forecasts . |
| 21 | Over the next decade he was able to build up comprehensive experience in Hammersmith & Fulham , Brent , Croydon , Berkshire , and lately as assistant director in Bedfordshire . |
| 22 | In September , the Americans approved a Military Assistance Programme to build up European armed forces , but the explosion of a Soviet atomic bomb at the same time highlighted European vulnerability in a world increasingly dominated by only two superpowers . |
| 23 | On a wire launch the best hope is for the car or winch driver to build up extra speed to get the glider as high as possible . |
| 24 | Do you pay attention to local features to build up global or d the other way round ? |
| 25 | In developing its plans for the redeployment of the Army , the General Staff were faced with three major difficulties : lack of genuine air mobility ; loss of overflying rights over Arab countries and restricted overflying of the Indian subcontinent due to India 's ‘ non-aligned ’ stance and Pakistan 's natural sympathy for Moslem Arab Nationalism ; and the justifiable reluctance in Whitehall to build up new overseas bases . |
| 26 | The need to build up effective study habits is also essential . |
| 27 | The accessibility of the seas led the maritime countries of Europe to build up huge fleets of ships , amounting to about six times as much tonnage as the rest of the world ( most of whose ships belonged to the United States ) and this predominance was to increase later . |
| 28 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 29 | This was designed to build up English exports , to encourage English shipping and increase England 's share of the carrying trade , of which the Dutch had the lion 's share at that time . |
| 30 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |