Our study built on previous research.
It built on previous work given priority and funded by former chief constable Michael Todd.
Level upon level of multistory buildings has been built on previous sites and structures.
We built on previous work by performing a more in-depth examination of a completed landscape fuel treatment network.
Science consists in the cumulation of small advances built on previous small advances, so that whole becomes a good deal greater than sum of its parts.
The catalysts built on previous work showing that nickel hydroxide is a promising catalyst, and that adding iron could improve it.
The ontology is built on previous works and integrates the notion of feature within a broader framework for product knowledge representation.
The experiments built on previous work by former postdoctoral associate and co-author Sarah Veatch, who had studied cellular membranes of immune cells and demonstrated their liquid-liquid phase separations.
I also initialized these materials using material I developed while a teaching assistant at Harvard which in turn built on previous generations of teaching assistants at Harvard's Department of Government and Harvard's Statistics Department.
Nash built on previous insights, particularly those of John von Neumann, another brilliant and brash mathematician who was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton when Nash was a graduate student.
While Mr. Morris's role as a pension-fund middleman may have been his most brazen and lucrative, it built on previous ventures that included several corporate directorships, the annual-report designer Curran & Connors, and his political consulting firm, Morris & Carrick.
