Example sentences of "[adv] drawn [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his article ‘ Polonium : Windscale 's most lethal legacy ’ ( New Scientist 31 March , p 873 ) John Urquhart has rightly drawn attention to the omission from consideration of polonium-210 in the National Radiological Protection Board 's report on the 1957 Windscale reactor fire . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has rightly drawn attention to the progress that has already been made . |
| 3 | A range of specialist libraries is available with hundreds of ready drawn objects for engineering , architecture , electronics etc . |
| 4 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 5 | The programme , which involves four hydro-electric power plants , has already drawn opposition from Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature , and Greek environmental groups , who fear that it will damage the ecosystem of Thrace , which straddles the border between the two countries . |
| 6 | First , the one I have already drawn attention to — love is infused in us by revealing love . |
| 7 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |
| 8 | In a pre-election report entitled Politics for All , Runnymede had already drawn attention to the painful gap between … the fine statements and aspirations of official policy statements on the one hand and the painful realities of discrimination and exclusion on the other . |
| 9 | In his earlier letter to Timothy , Paul had already drawn attention to the importance of maintaining right standards of conduct alongside right beliefs . |
| 10 | I have already drawn attention to the appalling contrast between the plaintiff 's young life as it was before the accident and her life as it is now . |
| 11 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 12 | It means that the population value of some characteristic , say , average height of adult males , can be estimated within range of error , from the values found within a suitably drawn sample of that population . |
| 13 | This is a sort of ‘ semi-film ’ , made by shooting the pictures of a specially drawn storyboard with a rostrum camera , which makes it possible to produce an almost moving picture with varying lengths of focus , to which can be added a recorded soundtrack . |
| 14 | … I have more than once drawn attention to the practical difficulties … but the difficulty goes deeper . |
| 15 | The logistical problems associated with the scheme have also drawn criticism from the German Newspaper Industry Association , whose spokesman warned that " the implementation [ of the Ordinance ] would result in total chaos . |
| 16 | Hall et al have also drawn attention to the role of exercise testing in young patients ( less than 55 years ) . |
| 17 | Svetozar Koljević , in his study The Epic in the Making , has also drawn attention to the importance of the oral tradition in a peasant society , most of whose members had no access to the written word . |
| 18 | However , we have also drawn attention to some less satisfactory features , several of them fundamental . |
| 19 | Previous studies have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that voters , particularly those who read lowbrow tabloids , tend to believe the news on television but remain sceptical about what they read in the press ( see , for example , Negrine , 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 20 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 21 | fibre-optics — a fibre-optic cable is a finely drawn strand of glass of some tenth of a millimetre in diameter , which is capable of sending high-speed pulses of light in binary form . |
| 22 | Mr Tebbit 's attempt to build a backbench revolt over the question of passports for the Hong Kong Chinese has inevitably drawn comparisons with the role of Mr Enoch Powell in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Scientists themselves have often drawn parallels between the experience of a scientific vocation and certain forms of religious experience . |
| 24 | This has been the result of both the recession , which has promoted early retirement and redundancy , and the increasingly sharply drawn age of retirement . |
| 25 | The reports made by members of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate have , over the past eighteen months , regularly drawn attention to the failure of teachers to pitch their expectations high enough . |
| 26 | Since the late 1970s feminist sociologists have increasingly drawn attention to gender as a dividing principle too . |
| 27 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 28 | The adult has then drawn attention to a deliberate change in the array , and asked again about the numerosity of the sets . |
| 29 | He watched his friend watching Isabel and his hazel eyes slowly widened as he took in the tightly drawn stillness in the other man 's body , the white-knuckled fist still clenched against the wall . |
| 30 | Cawkell had earlier drawn attention to the fact that important ‘ local ’ journals may not appear in JCR or in citation maps . |