we're building upon

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

We're building upon the foundations we've laid with guest columns and expanding the scope of our coverage beyond the startup chief executive, the venture investor or the occasional technology analyst or banker.

At Albion College we're building upon a 175-year foundation as a liberal arts institution with a career readiness focus by helping our students, beginning in their first semester on campus, identify their career vocations and ultimately to find meaningful employment opportunities.

And we're building upon a key area of interest that people in every city brought up during our first tour ― affordable housing ― by asking about the tradeoffs people are making as housing prices continue to rise.

We are building upon our initial successes to design new strategies for the effective delivery of Cas9 ribonucleoproteins.

In our current study, we are building upon our earlier findings and undertaking more focused examinations of the influence of color on how information from the eye is represented in the brain, and the transmission of that information to the higher order portions of the brain that support perception, cognition (e.g., language and thought), and emotion.

"With the enhancements to the procedures approved in Abu Dhabi, we are building upon the IPCC's firm foundations in order to make the next Assessment Report, due out in 2013 and 2014, the highest quality IPCC report to date," said top U.S. IPCC official Chris Field, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California, in a press release.

As we've been able to access information from far-flung communities faster, we can innovate faster - because we are building upon each other's learnings.

We are building upon the tools and resources already available at AgBase.

However, as already mentioned we are building upon the experience and equipment from ISAAC Phase II and SOLAR as well as other large-scale research projects in the field of asthma and allergies.

"We still have so much stuff to build," Borthwick said, so he doesn't think the innovation curve the recent crop of good startups is building upon will flatten out anytime soon.

Every time someone files a patent application, they cite the previous literature that they're building upon and that's often used.