Example sentences of "build up a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ipswich the development officer built up a register of possible workers through personal contacts or contact with local clubs , associations and the job centre . |
| 2 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
| 3 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 4 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
| 5 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 6 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 7 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
| 8 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 9 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 10 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 11 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 12 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 13 | The pilot has already spent twenty five years in the movie business and built up a collection of classic planes . |
| 14 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 15 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 16 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 17 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 18 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
| 19 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 20 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |
| 21 | Antiquarian observers built up a picture of an important urban complex enclosed by a stone wall , within which traces of an irregular street system and numerous buildings were visible , some with evidence for tessellated pavements and painted wall plaster . |
| 22 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 23 | On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly . |
| 24 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
| 26 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 27 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 28 | Children 's departments built up a body of social work expertise , and gradually extended their activities , from work to deal with the acute child care problems into work designed to prevent child neglect and abuse and work with delinquent children . |
| 29 | Although government capacity to meet expectations has declined , its capacity to meet expectations in the past built up a body of diffuse support , support that now exists independently of particular failures to meet demands . |
| 30 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |