Example sentences of "draw [adv] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 2 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Scott drew heavily on the Byzantine palaces of Venice , which Ruskin had popularized in The Stones of Venice , for inspiration in the revised Foreign Office design that he was preparing for Palmerston in the autumn of 1859 . |
| 4 | Here feminists drew heavily on the evangelical stress on marriage and the family as the foundation of upright national government . |
| 5 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
| 6 | ( At the same time , though its existence was naturally concealed from the rank-and-file , a ‘ Line of Panic ’ was also drawn up on the inner circle of forts , Belleville , Souville , Tavannes and Moulainville . |
| 7 | I have drawn up on the attached sheet the numbers of staff required in my estimation to deal with Council Tax in the future . |
| 8 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 9 | The courses in its MSc/Diploma in African Studies draw selectively on the African expertise of many members of the University 's staff . |
| 10 | Despite drawing often on the New Testament , Ralph Waldo Trine says there is a ‘ golden thread ’ running through all the great religions . |
| 11 | The post-war world seemed ready for new institutional initiatives of cultural " extension " drawing equally on the spiritual forces of art in the form of English , and established traditions of extended state and voluntary public activities . |