Example sentences of "build up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 2 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 3 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 4 | It is built up as a result of encountering these words in print as one is learning to read , though of course new word forms will be added throughout adult life as they are encountered . |
| 5 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 6 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 8 | The staff was gradually built up to a strength of 460 and , by the end of September 1943 60 planes had been repaired . |
| 9 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 10 | Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs . |
| 11 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 12 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 13 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 14 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 15 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 16 | Our everyday image is built up from a mass of little details — dress , social manners , tone of voice , and so on . |
| 17 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 18 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 19 | Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary . |
| 20 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 22 | The initial effort concentrated on the applicability gap , where the working party recommended : ( i ) that there should be a programme of collaborative research between the IT research community and the other engineering communities supported by the Engineering Board , ( ii ) that the research projects should be jointly funded by ITAB and the Engineering Board , and , ( iii ) that funding should build up to a total of £10 million per annum over five years . |
| 23 | NI takes a different subject every month , making its a valuable part-work which builds up into a library on development , a handy source of reference . |
| 24 | The years passed and each winter the starlings returned , numbers building up to a peak in March . |
| 25 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |