Example sentences of "draw up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 2 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 3 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 4 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 5 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 6 | Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside . |
| 7 | They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 8 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 9 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 10 | A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system . |
| 11 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 12 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 13 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 14 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 15 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 16 | He 'd drawn up outside the old town house , cut the engine . |
| 17 | In view of the evaporation of the objections of the BMA and a large number of doctors to the Government 's policy , does my hon. Friend agree that the debate is being drawn up along the following lines , with the Confederation of Health Service Employees , the National Union of Public Employees and the Labour party on one side and the Government , the taxpayers and the patients on the other ? |
| 18 | As she moved , restless beneath his scrutiny , with a mocking gesture he indicated one of the armchairs drawn up to the flower-filled fireplace . |
| 19 | Ministers clearly recognise there is widespread concern about the outcome of the new assessment process , the wide variations appearing in eligibility criteria , and about the contracts being drawn up with the independent sector . |
| 20 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 21 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 22 | An alternative draft platform for the forthcoming congress , drawn up at the Democratic Platform 's founding conference in January and from which it took its name [ see p. 37235 ] , was criticized for not attempting to make " a constructive contribution to the formulation of party strategy " and for concealing designs to turn the CPSU into a " shapeless association with complete freedom for factions and groupings , i.e. practically to dismantle it " . |
| 23 | A set of principles of ‘ functional ’ town planning was established , enshrined in a document drawn up at the fourth congress held aboard a liner cruising between Marseilles and Athens : hence the Athens Charter , 1933 . |
| 24 | The final articles of agreement drawn up on the 17th April allowed the lease for a term of 21 years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ( 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 . |
| 27 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 28 | I have drawn up on the attached sheet the numbers of staff required in my estimation to deal with Council Tax in the future . |
| 29 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 30 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |