Example sentences of "build [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the Soviet Union have good cause to be worried about the military build up of troops in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | Trying to stop another huge build up of travellers in one area is a subject keeping several police forces across the region occupied . |
| 8 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |
| 9 | Women , who predominated in the junior schools , did not get equal pay in principle until 1955 ( or in reality until 1962 ) , despite a vigorous campaign throughout the 1940s , so yet further inequality was built in between groups of teachers . |
| 10 | Constructed from structural steel sections , or occasionally of concrete , rack-supported building structures comprise of rows of back-to-back racking separated by gangways for the stacker-cranes and are commonly built up to heights of around 30 metres . |
| 11 | He said a film of dirt and oil had built up on roads during the long , dry spell . |
| 12 | They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite . |
| 13 | If the advice is more positive , will the parents be able to shrug off attitudes which have built up over decades in a few days ? |
| 14 | The sample will be built up from students in Further Education colleges in six locations in Britain . |
| 15 | Taking ourselves back to our basic physical components , we can say that we are built up from multitudes of particles held together by electrical bonds of varying strengths or intensities . |
| 16 | They are built up in tiers of well-rotted manure , grass clipping and annual weeds from the garden ; thin layers of pigeon droppings are then used as a compost activator . |
| 17 | And this is not the only place in The Exile where Pound shows himself restive inside the image of himself that had been built up among initiates by his propaganda of fifteen years before , when he had taken over ‘ imagism ’ and championed Ford Madox Ford 's ideas about a diction for poetry that should be ‘ plain ’ and ‘ direct ’ . |
| 18 | He felt the resentment building up in waves of pressure which threatened to burst his head open like an over-inflated balloon . |