Example sentences of "[was/were] drawn [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Regions of interest ( ROIs ) were drawn over the liver , spleen , lungs , and left kidney ensuring that the liver ROI excluded the descending aorta and right kidney ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 32 | It was warm and cosy ; crimson velvet curtains were drawn over the windows and the panelled walls glowed darkly . |
| 33 | It was when the novelty had worn off , when the days grew short , when earlier and earlier the curtains were drawn against the dark silence outside , that she became restless . |
| 34 | The curtains , so blue that they were almost black , were drawn against the view . |
| 35 | The problem was that rather than landing Portuguese champion club Cascais in the semis they were drawn against the Saltires in a re-run of last year 's final . |
| 36 | In no time at all , the fire was blazing cheerfully , the curtains were drawn against the night , and Beth was pouring the water from the kettle into the bath ; a spill of cold water from the ewer , then another drop from the kettle , and the water was just the right temperature , the warm steam rising nicely and filling the room with a comfortable warm smell . |
| 37 | But we were drawn by the Romantic taste in scenery , what Bertrand Russell called ‘ wild torrents , fearful precipices , pathless forests , thunderstorms and generally what is useless , destructive and violent ’ . |
| 38 | Quarter-million-dollar incomes ( not including bonuses ) were drawn by the top oil company bosses . |
| 39 | Other lessons were drawn by the opposition . |
| 40 | Her eyes were drawn by the stone immediately . |
| 41 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 42 | To Slumptown have also been attracted many from other countries who during the 1950s were drawn by the glittering promises of prosperity diligently advertised by Great Britain . |
| 43 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 44 | Regions of interest were drawn around the stomach and colon . |
| 45 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 46 | The combat troops were drawn from the Seventh Infantry Division , part of an 8,000-strong party of reinforcements dispatched to Panama on Wednesday night . |
| 47 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 48 | Reggae was a poor man 's music and its themes were drawn from the ghettoes of Trenchtown , Jamaica . |
| 49 | Its members were drawn from the North and South ( including oil exporters ) . |
| 50 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 51 | The clergy officiating at both Sutton and Wawne were drawn from the abbey at Meaux , which was close to both . |
| 52 | Hahnemann 's original remedies were drawn from the mineral , plant and animal kingdoms . |
| 53 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 54 | The 115 raiders were drawn from the Independent Companies as No.11 Independent Company carrying half the British stock of Thompson sub-machine guns : 20 tommy-guns . |
| 55 | These articles were drawn from the most recent issues . |
| 56 | Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal . |
| 57 | The members of the Council were drawn from the national governments and had the task of counterbalancing the High Authority 's supranationalism . |
| 58 | The conclusions were drawn from the analysis of the latest audited final year results and share prices from some 127 publicly listed information technology companies , as they stood on January 21 1993 . |
| 59 | The officers were drawn from the nobility . |
| 60 | Its priests were drawn from the ruling houses of the tribes , many of whose sons became Druids , and sometimes even the kings themselves , as in the case of Diviacus , the friend of Caesar . |