Example sentences of "build [adv prt] over [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Implicitly , exit costs exceeded costs of entry , largely due to the sunk costs of contacts , reputation and privileged access to information on market movements ( on the demand side ) and expertise ( on the cost side ) built up over time .
2 The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar .
3 Every person or animal that follows the path seems to leave a trail of energy , and these energy paths build up over time .
4 Responding to Mrs Thatcher 's initiative is one way in which radicals build up over time an alternative election programme .
5 A knowledge of the context in which acts of sabotage occur — the lack of alternatives available to workers , the frustrations that build up over time — often shows sabotage to have been an understandable response .
6 The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable .
7 he believes cumulative stress which builds up over time , should be classified as an industrial injury for which people can claim compensation .
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