Example sentences of "up [prep] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 2 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 3 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 4 | However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected . |
| 5 | Yes it 's erm made up of a small proportion of the countries in the General , General Assembly , about five countries and seats on it erm basically the allies from the second world war erm and the other seats are changed around periodically between the nation , other nations . |
| 6 | Coalitions are temporary structures made up of a small group of individuals ( usually two ) sharing a common goal . |
| 7 | A panel made up of a small group of SCOTVEC 's senior committee members was brought together to sift through the many college 's nominees . |
| 8 | During the course of the civil war , the Long Parliament removed from the church all the innovations introduced by Charles and Laud during the 1630s , abolished episcopacy and the Elizabethan Prayer Book , and entrusted the task of devising a new church to the Westminster Assembly of Divines , a committee made up of a small number of MPs and peers , several representatives of parliament 's allies the Scots , and over 100 English churchmen . |
| 9 | From today 's disclosures , it would appear that the savings that would come from the setting up of a small number of large authorities will be less than was originally suggested . |
| 10 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
| 11 | In open rock pools , Bullheads , Taurulus bubalis , Dragonets , and Gobies , are some of the small fish that can be scooped up with a small net , together with Hermit Crabs that can be spied trundling over the bottom . |
| 12 | The other three departments keep most information in hard copy but back it up with a small use of online services . |
| 13 | By studying regions of the proteins the proteinase cuts , they have come up with a small molecule that can block this scissor action . |
| 14 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
| 15 | " Take a quart of Creme and a pint of rhenish wine and the juice of 4 lemons sweeten it to your taste and put in some leamon peele then whip it up with a small rod and put it with a spoone into syllabub glasses . " |
| 16 | The postal surveys are to be followed up with a small number of interviews . |
| 17 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
| 18 | She curled up into a small ball , too tired to stay awake , but too scared to go to sleep in case she started to dream again . |
| 19 | Epidermal cells have been thrown up into a small mound at the site of closure . |
| 20 | With typical Dwarf stubbornness Duregar led his troops up onto a small mound , the remains of an ancient Dwarf tomb , to make his last stand . |
| 21 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 22 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 23 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |
| 24 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 25 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 26 | They hurriedly threw up earthen walls , stretching blankets over the top to shelter them ; and cooped up in a small place like this , four or five families together , they spent the following winter . ’ |
| 27 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 28 | Pool Bank has its own ghost , that of an unfortunate wife who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death . |
| 29 | Amaldi grew up in a small town in Lombardy , and took his doctorate in physics from Rome at the remarkably early age of 21 . |
| 30 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |