Example sentences of "build on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The progress in achieving this aim is astonishing — and News and Current Affairs is working closely with Bush House to make sure we build on that success . |
| 2 | When another person indicates support for something you have said , build on that alliance by acknowledging their contribution : ‘ Bill 's made a very good point there ’ , and , if appropriate , back them up ( 'and what I think is also relevant' or ‘ I 'd like to add to what he said by … |
| 3 | Parents can use a repertoire of techniques for behaviour change which build on each other . |
| 4 | Scottish Literature 2 and 3 build on this foundation by examining selected themes and genres , with particular emphasis on the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Reading is best taught in the classroom when teachers build on this basis . |
| 6 | The project build on considerable experience of applied GIS : the School of Geography at the University of Leeds has been at the forefront of international developments in applied geographical modelling and through GMAP ( Geographical Modelling and Planning ) Ltd. is now applying its unique state of the art approach in many varied business and planning environments . |
| 7 | Manchester and Liverpool are doing the same , as more and more houses are being built on vast estates , with their own shopping centres and with factories which are built on industrial trading estates . |
| 8 | Two houses are to be built on grazing land behind 71 High Street , Byers Green , Spennymoor . |
| 9 | Two houses are to be built on grazing land behind 71 High Street , Byers Green , Spennymoor . |
| 10 | A second one , the Greeks hope , is about to be built on European money . |
| 11 | By 1993 , a HK$4bn airport that is to be built on reclaimed land off the island of Taipa is due to be opened . |
| 12 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 13 | This was replaced in turn by the immense station built on reclaimed land in the late 1920s and opened in 1930 . |
| 14 | Listed below are some of the important areas of activity in which Johnson Matthey holds a pre-eminent position built on unrivalled specialist knowledge and technical excellence . |
| 15 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 16 | Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth . |
| 17 | Erm and this whole area is , is , is , was built on that kind of industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 19 | For some great conductors it was — Karajan , like everyone else , had a good line in Knappertsbusch stories — but Karajan 's repertory and reputation have not been built on that premiss . |
| 20 | The gallery now manages its own building ; the problem of the site next door was resolved after over fifty years , and I genuinely believe that the gallery floor in the Sainsbury Wing built on that site provides the best space for Old Master paintings to have been created anywhere in the last forty or fifty years . |
| 21 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 22 | ‘ 'T WAS built on marshy land , fortunately for us , ’ Simon told her . |
| 23 | BUILT ON CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT |
| 24 | failed to establish that house was built on infilled quarry . |
| 25 | This bridge was built on dry land and afterwards the course of the river was diverted . |
| 26 | Newton and Karran argue that ‘ the case for the present degree of control is built on shabby theory and lacks empirical support . |
| 27 | Much of London 's Docklands are built on re-claimed land , which was originally marshy . |
| 28 | Human institutions and ideas are a superstructure built on economic reality . |
| 29 | In the new world order , George Bush has abandoned the crude anti-communism of the Reagan period for a foreign policy built on economic pragmatism . |
| 30 | First , since the volcano is built on oceanic crust , the magmas involved will be basaltic , so that the sort of eruption that we can expect will be a modification of an ordinary Hawaiian or Strombolian eruption . |