Example sentences of "build [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 2 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 3 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 4 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 5 | There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath . |
| 6 | The benefits you gain can increase each year in the form of these bonuses , which build up annually from the investment of your premiums in the Guardian Life Fund . |
| 7 | After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos . |
| 8 | They build almost wholly with the granite used in the new pavement of the streets of London … |
| 9 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 10 | ‘ Or because they 're built so close to the ground . ’ |
| 11 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 12 | A new car-park is being built further away from the house , so that visitors will no longer have their first impressions spoiled by large numbers of vehicles . |
| 13 | Houses were being built ever further down the road which now completely bypassed the old fort . |
| 14 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 15 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 16 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 17 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 18 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 19 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 20 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 21 | The silos , which were built almost exclusively for the storage of milling wheat have a capacity of 33,000 tons . |
| 22 | My enthusiasm for economic and political union is therefore built quite simply on the financial interests of our nation . |
| 23 | They see them at home , it 's all around them , but the use of calculators for example has not really been built yet widely into the curriculum for primary schools , so that is an area that we shall be having a look at . |
| 24 | Not that the atmosphere was gloomy : it is a curious fact that as a general election approaches , excitement builds up even in the most hopeless fight . |
| 25 | What has happened in the current year is we 've started from no involvement with this particular group of clients , and building up where by the end of the year , our best estimate we 're approaching six hundred clients so then we have a commitment of providing either residential care or some care package which keeps them out of residential care . |
| 26 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 27 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 28 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 29 | There is then a dynamic situation , with the near-shore sediments building out laterally in the usual way . |
| 30 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |