I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird builds a nest
▪ By March many birds have already built nests.
a building programme
▪ We will continue with our hospital building programme.
a building/construction boom (=a sudden increase in building work)
▪ There’s been a recent construction boom in the Gulf.
a building/construction site
▪ He has worked on various building sites.
a farm building
▪ The farmhouse is separated by hedges from other farm buildings.
a recording/building etc contract
▪ The band was soon offered a recording contract with Columbia Records.
an apartment building (also an apartment block British English apartment house American English)
▪ a five-storey apartment block
▪ Our apartment building is the last block on the right, opposite the bank.
an engineering/building/electronics etc firm
▪ Fred worked for an electronics firm.
body building
build a base
▪ By concentrating on our core businesses we will build a strong base from which to exploit future opportunities.
build a bridge (also erect a bridgeformal)
▪ Finally a new bridge was erected over the road.
build a career (=make it develop)
▪ She built her literary career by writing about crime.
build a consensus (=gradually achieve a consensus)
▪ Canada worked on building a consensus among national governments.
build a house
▪ They’re building a house on land overlooking Galway Bay.
build a tunnel
▪ The contractors will start building the tunnel next month.
build on/capitalize on a strength (=use it as a basis for further achievement)
▪ The organization must move forward and capitalize on its strengths.
build up a collection
▪ He gradually built up a collection of plants from all over the world.
build (up) an empire
▪ She built her clothing empire from one small shop to an international chain.
build up sb’s confidence (=gradually increase it)
▪ When you’ve had an accident, it takes a while to build up your confidence again.
build (up) support (=increase it)
▪ Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.
build up to a climax
▪ The music was getting louder and building up to a climax.
build up your strength (=make yourself stronger)
▪ You need to build up your strength.
build (up)/develop a business
▪ He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.
build up/establish a circle
▪ Michael built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide.
build up/form a picture (=gradually get an idea of what something is like)
▪ Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
build/develop a reputation
▪ Our business has built a reputation for reliable service.
building block
▪ Amino acids are the building blocks of protein.
building contractor
building materials
▪ a supply of building materials
building regulations (=relating to the structure of buildings)
▪ The Building Regulations no longer specify minimum ceiling heights.
building site
building society
building up...stock
▪ The country has been building up its stock of weapons.
build/make a nest
▪ Swallows build their nests out of mud.
build/manufacture/produce sth to ... specifications
▪ The airport building had been constructed to FAA specifications.
built environment
built...from scratch
▪ He had built the business up from scratch.
confidence building (=making it develop)
▪ Training for a big match is all about confidence building.
develop/form/build a relationship
▪ By that age, children start developing relationships outside the family.
erect/build/put up barriers
▪ Some kids have erected emotional barriers that stop them from learning.
establish/build up/develop (a) rapport
▪ He built up a good rapport with the children.
gain/gather/build up momentum (=become more and more successful)
▪ The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
heavy build (=a large broad body)
▪ Kyle is a tall man with a heavy build.
housing/building landBritish English (= land where houses can be built)
▪ The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
in the building/retail etc line
▪ She’s keen to do something in the fashion line.
make/build a fire
▪ He found wood to make a fire.
(of) medium height/length/build
▪ She’s of medium height.
▪ hair of medium length
office building
raise/build (up)/boost sb’s self-esteem
▪ Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem.
▪ students’ sense of self-esteem
sick building syndrome
▪ A common household fungus can contribute to sick building syndrome.
specially designed/built/made etc
▪ The boats are specially built for the disabled.
stocky build
▪ a stocky build
strengthen/build up your muscles (=make them stronger)
▪ If you strengthen the muscles in your back you are less likely to have back problems.
tenement building/house/block
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Christmas dinner is built around horsd'oeuvres, various kinds of pasta, capon and turkey.
▪ See how an economy designed around building more houses for new people benefits existing residents?
▪ But get your orders in fast; they only plan to build around fifteen each year.
▪ They are built around speed, not size, at a time when mastodons rule the earth.
▪ For the prosperous merchants, substantial timber-framed houses were built around the gates of the Castle and Priory.
▪ He own every other building around here.
▪ Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages.
▪ He loved to fly, and his mission was to develop a business built around flying.
on
▪ New breakthroughs build on past discoveries.
▪ The remaining 7. 8 acres that Gregory hopes to build on also became available as a result of a bankruptcy.
▪ Indeed, on some lines, bridges were built on almost all occasions.
▪ For the United States was built on at least two basic structures, the old capitalism and the new.
▪ We're focusing on rights of way and trying to find out if there's any kind of consensus to build on.
▪ They thus built on the momentum they had gained in convention by moving about among the people.
▪ Her memories of him were very faint and she needed something concrete to build on.
▪ For one thing, they built on and created yet more separate, woman-only organizations.
up
▪ It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy.
▪ A: Fertilizers can contain salts that build up, creating white marks on containers.
▪ The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion.
▪ I have continued to build up alliances with organisations prepared to pursue quality in architecture.
▪ This is the best way to build up your confidence.
▪ Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter.
▪ The Protec filters which can be built up by modules, feature brushes, foam cartridges and flocor.
▪ I didn't even feel the hotness building up behind my eyeballs.
■ NOUN
apartment
▪ It was the address of an apartment building in Hollywood that I had lived in.
▪ The apartments were built only two years ago, and are spacious and attractively furnished.
▪ All the doors in our apartment building were, again, closed.
▪ We have empty apartments in every building of this project.
▪ Confronting two young men outside a Vista apartment building, 18-year-old Lane pulled a gun.
▪ It had not been easy taking care of the apartment building while I was away.
block
▪ Briefing box 1.1 Making classifications: Aristotle and Finer Description and classification are the building blocks of comparative politics.
▪ As such, shortcuts are key building blocks of Windows 95.
▪ The building blocks of these polymers are often exactly the same as those used to make saturated fats.
▪ How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity?
▪ Analysts consider an effective land code to be one of the essential building blocks of a true Western-style market economy.
▪ When my children draw, as when they build with Legos or blocks, they are usually devising worlds and stories.
▪ That second child may have spent her preschool years catching and studying dragonflies or building castles out of blocks.
bridge
▪ Why, long ago, did the local people decide to build their bridges with such high arches?
▪ Serrell was given a contract to build a highway suspension bridge over the Niagara between Lewiston and Queenston.
▪ Patrick was right, she must build bridges now with Lizzy.
▪ She could picture her feelings and build bridges between different emotional ideas as a basis for reality testing and impulse control.
▪ If a holiday falls on a Thursday, they build a bridge between it and the weekend.
▪ Do we believe we ought build a bridge big enough and wide enough for all of us to walk across.
▪ In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down.
▪ I think men are just more interested in building buildings and bridges and cars.
business
▪ People build a business for their families.
▪ Rocco Forte will concentrate and focus on building the businesses.
▪ Verisign has already built a tidy business selling two types of digital signatures: personal and site certificates.
▪ About 400 people work in the building on a normal business day, he said.
▪ Through word of mouth and demand from customers, they've built up a sizable business with five drivers.
▪ Knowing where you are every day can be the difference between building a successful business and going out of business.
▪ But she made certain that her great concern for environmental issues were built into her business philosophy.
▪ Helping him build the business, she found she had a talent for it.
church
▪ A large Family Centre being built next to the church will cater for various activities.
▪ They built churches, hospices, monasteries, and convents.
▪ The Ecclesiological Society wanted to build a model church.
▪ He built a church, then resuscitated the faith in Rheims.
▪ And plans are already afoot to to build a church there called the Cathedral On Spilt Blood.
▪ She asked him to build a church to her memory and per-formed the first miracle in the New WoAd.
▪ He built churches and converted thousands.
city
▪ The bowl of righteousness was shattered long ago, when Tsao Ch'un built his City.
▪ Several times they started to build a city, but they were always driven away by misfortunes or bad omens.
▪ Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War.
▪ The new owners briefly toyed with selling the building to the city last summer for conversion into a new central library.
▪ He built new cities and was responsible for the building of the new Temple in Jerusalem.
▪ Whoever blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City deserves to be drawn and quartered as cheering throngs watch.
▪ Or the men who built the ancient city of Pompeii and constructed gardens inside and out 2000 years ago?
▪ Put it this way: You gon na have a city, you got ta build a city hall.
confidence
▪ Timid children need gentle handling to build up their confidence.
▪ This year they have a chance to build some much-needed early confidence.
▪ The first step needed for building confidence is for the regime to release all political prisoners.
▪ Employees should be prepared for the change in order to reduce scepticism and to build their confidence. 5.
▪ George W.. Bush could do much to build confidence and a mandate for his leadership, both abroad and at home.
▪ Major said holding local elections is the best immediate way to build confidence in the stalled peace process.
▪ Again, this is a very friendly area ideal for building up muscles and confidence.
▪ As you expand the dialogue, without being intrusive, you begin to build his confidence in you.
empire
▪ Chaps like Penny had once built empires.
▪ Don Robey built an empire worth millions in a city far removed from the main line of entertainment.
▪ Other crops can not sustain the increased population, but you can build empires on maize.
▪ What happened was we took a look at the company and found that some areas had built up little empires.
▪ We're going to build an empire.
▪ Meanwhile, opponents build their empires, and eventually the civilizations bump into each other.
▪ A computer whiz-kid, he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world.
▪ The leaders build small empires on their armies of peddlers.
fire
▪ How to build a fire First make sure you've got enough dry timber of varying sizes to keep your fire going.
▪ You ever seen a face built out of fire, underwater?
▪ Here I built a small fire, and putting my back to the rock lit a cigarette.
▪ We built a great fire in the outdoor fireplace and roasted the steak, drank the beer, and talked.
▪ At Kaliro the hunters would build a small fire on a hill to show they were safe.
▪ She was built like a fire hydrant.
▪ Whilst the Technology was being built there was a fire at the school which meant an extra classroom had to be built.
▪ That evening before dinner, he built a fire.
home
▪ They find it difficult to build a home for their babies in a Dimmock water feature or a teak pergola.
▪ My parents had built a pleasant little home for $ 6, 000 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
▪ The homes they would build together.
▪ Farrakhan, upon his return, said he would accept the money to build homes, factories and schools.
▪ Community leaders decided to build homes for rent to help young people brought up in the village stay in the area.
▪ Neswood-Gishey and her husband are building a new home in a village about 50 miles away.
▪ But women you want to keep a hold of, to share and build a home with, these are not allowed.
▪ But he held on to his interest in the surrounding property, on which he eventually built a vacation home.
house
▪ There are enough bricks to build a house.
▪ Final phase of the approval process to build 212 town houses on 25.82 acres.
▪ Council officers are also backing plans to build 35 new houses on adjoining farmland by Flint-based construction group David McLean.
▪ The one-story adobe structure was built in 1905 to house miners.
▪ As the little piggy said, when he built his house made out of bricks.
▪ In 1977 I took a year off from farming and built a house farther up the hollow.
▪ They built these houses on to the back of the park which became the golf course.
▪ The sky had darkened by the time they pulled into the clearing where Kingsley had built his two-story house.
line
▪ The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights, the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall.
▪ Beck was not proposing public ownership of the generating plants, but he did want the province to build the transmission lines.
▪ We want to build a line which will connect Seatown with the big cities.
▪ In Crete Vincent Scully found a repeating pattern of palaces and towns built in line with horned mountains.
▪ The Stadio Olimpico, a stone's throw from the Tiber, is built on gladiatorial lines.
▪ We go up to Loc Ninh, then we build a line to Phnom Penh.
nest
▪ The females who were played the reduced repertories turned out to build nests at a lower rate.
▪ They, too, are getting close to the time when they start to build their nests.
▪ Birds have an instinct to build nests.
▪ Little by little the bird builds its nest.
▪ In a month the indigo bunting will sing and build its nest in the brambles.
▪ The females build nests, give birth to their blind and hairless young after a gestation of thirty days.
▪ These birds all sing at intervals, as does the phoebe that has built its nest over my window.
network
▪ San Diego officials are encouraging the building of fiber-optic networks through the City of the Future program, announced earlier this month.
▪ H., a market leader in building computer networks, closed down 6 3 / 8 at 70 5 / 8.
▪ Little attention has been paid to building a road network.
▪ The first two criteria have to do with setting agendas and the others with building networks.
▪ Many researchers are investigating ways to build neural networks directly in integrated circuits.
▪ Secrets build their own networks, Win believed.
office
▪ Behind this colonnade shops and offices were built against the rear wall.
▪ Today, Sensable Technologies occupies a suite of offices in a sleek office building in Cambridge.
▪ This would feature a 20-storey office building linked to a separate seven-storey block.
▪ I walked back to my office building and retrieved my car from the parking lot without going upstairs.
▪ It will overtake Commerce as the second-biggest federal office building in the land.
▪ Despite problems filling up the office building, the entire deal is already generating a positive return.
▪ His law offices in a small building on the southwestern edge of the city were deluged with calls and visits by reporters.
picture
▪ How do you build up the picture in a regression session?
▪ In Vera Cruz, a mob gathered in front of the government building and demanded a picture of Santa Anna.
▪ These shapes are built into moving pictures which are inspired by those drawn by Blake to illustrate stories from the Bible.
▪ Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.
▪ It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
▪ Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.
▪ You might argue that such an investigation, though time-consuming, would enable you to build up the picture you want.
▪ This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth.
plan
▪ It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy.
▪ Our whole plan is to build towards that new arena.
▪ A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time.
▪ Today, there are four, with plans to build an additional one in Chandler.
▪ Local mineral plans will build on this framework with more site-specific proposals.
▪ Together they forged a plan built on that feedback.
▪ Hiatt had come to oppose Shames and his plan to build a $ 30 million high-tech distribution center in Louisville, Ky.
plant
▪ Mr Bondevik wanted to postpone building gas plants until emissions of environmental-damaging carbon dioxide can be cut.
▪ The government simply went out and built the plants itself.
▪ They then build the plants required to generate the energy.
▪ In the late seventies we conducted a pilot evaluation of video tele-conferencing for a group of engineers building a new manufacturing plant.
▪ The price range reflects the uncertainty involved in the novel technology that will be needed to build large syn-gas plants.
▪ San Diego pulled out of that project last fall, saying it would build its own treatment plant in the valley.
▪ The company wanting to build the plant has reported massive pre-tax losses.
▪ More than forty team rooms have been built in the plant for team meetings, briefings and debriefings, and work breaks.
road
▪ There simply isn't enough money in the world to build enough roads to soak up that kind of demand.
▪ When Brown built a plank road from his hotel to the Falls, Forsyth ripped it up.
▪ Another government department could build the road.
▪ My family was not built for the road.
▪ Battlefield Engineers build bridges, clear obstacles, build roads or destroy them.
▪ The firm is headquartered in a plush $ 2. 5 million office building on Woodside Road.
▪ We will investigate ways of speeding up, within the Department of Transport, the procedures for building new roads.
▪ During the occupation, the army trained a military, built roads, and opened schools.
site
▪ Empty building sites have been reclaimed and replanted.
▪ And I read that many cathedrals were built on ancient pagan sites, which in turn were built over underground streams.
▪ The first chapel of the Independents was built on the site in 1705.
▪ Another 40 units are in the process of being built on the 12-acre site.
▪ He took me from the station to one of the new building sites at Ruchill.
▪ She might inspect a building as a possible site for a new house.
▪ A superstore and retail warehousing will be built on another site due for closure.
▪ Both were built at its Winfrith site in Dorset.
system
▪ Into this would be built an early warning system to keep the business on the right financial track.
▪ Third, two-year institutions have shown the most willingness to become involved in building school-to-work systems.
▪ They built hub-and-spoke route systems based on a few large airports, rather than a web of direct, non-stop flights.
▪ But that was built into the revised system regardless of who got the contract.
▪ As you do so, try to build up a system of classification, explaining your basis for making distinctions.
▪ There is very little slack built into the system and usually not much tolerance for errors.
▪ The development could have other applications such as traffic monitoring, building system technology and automation.
▪ Inherently, there are two performance dangers built into the system.
wall
▪ My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
▪ There were storage bins built into the back wall.
▪ You helped them build the Wall.
▪ We build walls around ourselves and cut ourselves off from those who would empathize with and even help us.
▪ You can do everything from digging the foundations building the walls and putting in the plumbing and electrics.
▪ And forces can be transmitted only by the solid elements of the building: the walls, columns, and beams.
▪ The second half of the day was building a wall.
▪ To build the curtain wall, they needed the bricks on site.
■ VERB
begin
▪ BCaltrans hopes to begin building in 2005.
▪ Even Cockerton could not escape progress and in 1860 John Prior began building the street of houses that still bear his name.
▪ But his record of failure began to build, and so did the feelings of discomfort toward him.
▪ Muriel Spark began to build the case for the defence in her ground-breaking study of 1951.
▪ A child may begin by building a block boat and constructing the story behind that boat.
▪ The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.
▪ Shortly thereafter they began building about it the cathedral and an adjoining monastery.
help
▪ For some megapodes, two brothers cooperate to help a female build her mound.
▪ You can hire great people with high energy who can help you build your business.
▪ It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
▪ I helped to build that place.
▪ In Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, private money is also being used to help build new airports.
▪ Her job was to refIne him, to help him build his practice.
▪ Of course, Tam and Richie hadn't helped matters by building a fence that went slack.
▪ It would help to build her up, they said.
hope
▪ Mr MacGregor hopes to build more roads.
▪ Next year they hope to build on that success.
▪ Now we hope to build a data base to analyse why one last is more successful than another.
▪ The remaining 7. 8 acres that Gregory hopes to build on also became available as a result of a bankruptcy.
▪ BCaltrans hopes to begin building in 2005.
▪ Those leaders then communicate the decision as broadly as possible, hoping to build awareness and buy-in.
▪ It hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term.
▪ He eventually hopes to build an entire nervous system of silicon and to create artificial neural networks that never stop adapting.
try
▪ And in the Karoo desert, in the northwestern Cape, a group of whites is trying to build its own homeland.
▪ If it demurred, the Corps might waste no time in trying to build it instead.
▪ There is no reason, however, to suppose that Isabella had deliberately tried to build up a party amongst the bishops.
▪ Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming.
▪ Are you trying to build a wall against me, Spatz?
▪ As governor, the 50-year-old Bush is trying to build an image as a doer.
▪ Know what you have to offer-write it down-#try the confidence building skills audit on page 37. 2.
▪ Let it out and cry. Try not to build up the pain inside you.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Rome wasn't built in a day
building blocks
get/build up a head of steam
get/pick/build up steam
▪ But Dehlavi takes his time getting up steam, leaving a good 20 minutes of surplus slack in these two hours.
▪ Cons: Just when the bobsled builds up steam, brakes on the track slow it down.
▪ If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
▪ Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
▪ Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who is suddenly picking up steam?
▪ The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
heavily built
▪ A heavily built man in a corduroy jacket edged closer to him on his left.
▪ Angus is heavily built and fair.
▪ Constantine was tall, heavily built and had a commanding presence.
▪ He was certainly a heavily built man, but a lot of it was fat.
▪ In a rough kind of way he was good-looking, but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type.
▪ Luckily, my shield was heavily built.
▪ Shorter than Carver - five foot seven - he was heavily built with wide shoulders and stocky legs.
▪ To his left was a heavily built grey-haired man, who looked straight ahead.
slightly-built
turn a room/building etc inside out
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are they going to build on this land?
▪ Every single car is built by hand at the company's headquarters near Turin.
▪ He built his political career on anti-Communism.
▪ His ambition is to build his own house.
▪ John and his father built the cabin themselves.
▪ One of Jim's hobbies is building model airplanes.
▪ Only about 3% of houses in the US are built of concrete.
▪ Tension is building between the two countries.
▪ The cost of building the new football stadium was over $40 million.
▪ The PTA is working to build support for the school in the community.
▪ The road was originally built by the Romans.
▪ They're going to build another runway at the airport.
▪ Ukraine wanted to build its own independent army.
▪ We're planning to build near the lake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alfoxden had been built by the St Albyns early in the eighteenth century close to the centre of their ancient park.
▪ Many people have studied languages in the past in school or elsewhere and this knowledge can be built upon.
▪ On what one commandment or value should I build my goals?
▪ The Company has built strong audiences in key markets and believes these communities can be extended and developed online.
▪ The Planetarium was built in 1929 in the style of a classical temple.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Both the attackers are dark skinned and of average build.
medium
▪ He was about thirty-five and of medium build but beginning to fill out.
▪ He is of slim to medium build and was wearing a dark ski mask.
▪ Of medium height and build, he crouched behind the car, perched elbows on the roof, focused the binoculars.
▪ The robber's described as a white male, in his early to mid twenties and of medium build.
▪ Police are looking for a man who's five feet eleven inches tall and of medium build.
muscular
▪ I agree with points raised in the correspondence regarding muscular build raising suspicion of abuse.
new
▪ In some new build areas groundwater infiltration to existing sewers is as high as 20 times the dry weather flows.
▪ To make matters just a bit more confusing, developers sometimes release a new build of the same program.
▪ Suitable applications range from new build to restoration projects.
slight
▪ Take a lady of slight build who is not too strong in the hands.
▪ He was younger than they and shorter and of slighter build.
▪ Mark Garland was slight of build, very fair, good looking in a feminine way.
▪ The attacker was described as 30 years old with short dark hair, slight build and a Cockney accent.
▪ He was a short man, slight in build, and was curled up in the foetal position.
▪ Winnicott was of slight and spare build, with an angular expressive face that was from early on deeply lined.
slim
▪ He is of slim to medium build and was wearing a dark ski mask.
▪ She's described as five foot three, with blonde permed hair, slim build and green eyes.
▪ She had specified fair hair, slim build, regular features, smooth skin.
▪ You have such a lovely slim build.
stocky
▪ He's in his late twenties, about five feet ten and of a stocky build.
▪ The missing man is about 5 feet 7 inches tall, about 170 pounds with a stocky build.
▪ Witnesses described the running man as about 5', of stocky build, and with an extremely florid complexion.
▪ A homely man of stocky build he sported an untidy moustache.
■ NOUN
body
▪ Briant Bodies Alpha and Beta carry physical characteristics including hair, skin and eye color, and body build.
▪ Social systems build up defenses against change like the body builds up defenses against diseases.
▪ Negative comments about mannerisms, body build, appearance, interests, and personality traits should be avoided.
quality
▪ Superb build quality and a good specification are bonus points and 100,000 miles or more can be expected from well-maintained examples.
▪ We were impressed by the build quality of the micro adjustable guide.
▪ So I have no reason, other than build quality, task suitability and performance, for purchasing components made by specific companies.
■ VERB
help
▪ The next morning Brian Gore shows me round the church complex he helped build.
▪ The Republican senator established the task force to help build consensus and draft legislation on issues facing rural areas of the state.
▪ Over the last 30 years the Trust has helped build 26 village schools, two hospitals and 12 medical centres.
▪ Those resources are expected to help build 5, 000 new homes and generate 23, 000 temporary jobs.
▪ Triclosan interferes with an enzyme that plants need to make fatty acids-molecules that help build cell membranes.
▪ Exercise also helps control weight and builds bone mass, muscles and joints, the report said.
▪ Wagner plans to use the technology to help build sites for third parties.
▪ He helped build an era in which public service was honorable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Elvis/sb/sth has left the building
Rome wasn't built in a day
get/build up a head of steam
get/pick/build up steam
▪ But Dehlavi takes his time getting up steam, leaving a good 20 minutes of surplus slack in these two hours.
▪ Cons: Just when the bobsled builds up steam, brakes on the track slow it down.
▪ If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
▪ Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
▪ Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who is suddenly picking up steam?
▪ The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
heavily built
▪ A heavily built man in a corduroy jacket edged closer to him on his left.
▪ Angus is heavily built and fair.
▪ Constantine was tall, heavily built and had a commanding presence.
▪ He was certainly a heavily built man, but a lot of it was fat.
▪ In a rough kind of way he was good-looking, but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type.
▪ Luckily, my shield was heavily built.
▪ Shorter than Carver - five foot seven - he was heavily built with wide shoulders and stocky legs.
▪ To his left was a heavily built grey-haired man, who looked straight ahead.
slightly-built
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Builders say that new home construction is slowing down.
▪ a powerful build
▪ He looks rather like me -- we both have the same build.
▪ The man the police are looking for is about thirty years old, blond, and of medium build.
▪ You're exactly the right build for a rugby player -- you've got good strong broad shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he was about the same build as her husband.
▪ He was good at climbing; it was a sport in which his small, sinewy build was on his side.
▪ Same sort of features, though, same build.
▪ This machine is no exception, and the quality of the build is better than you might expect for a bog-standard clone.