Example sentences of "[was/were] drawn [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both males and females use infrasound to attract mates , and when recordings of these calls were played , elephants were drawn towards the loudspeakers . |
| 2 | Most godly men , who were known as ‘ Puritans ’ were drawn to support parliament , whilst the more profane were drawn to the King 's side . |
| 3 | You 've said before that you were put off trumpet , and that you were drawn to the guitar because it was the instrument that your parents most feared . |
| 4 | We entered the room and Mum began to look round , but my eyes were drawn to the bed . |
| 5 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 6 | This is mirrored in the huge crowds that were drawn to the special exhibition of books staged by the Educational Publishers Council in London this autumn . |
| 7 | ‘ Reverting to the decision at first instance in the Leighton case , the report of the argument shows that the provisions of section 82(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1925 were drawn to the attention of Luxmoore J. We feel no doubt that he would have appreciated that , even in the absence of a successful plea of forgery or non est factum , the section would in terms have conferred a discretion on the court to rectify the charges register , even as against the innocent chargees . |
| 8 | The circumstances of the breach ( which followed a previous less significant breach ) were drawn to the plaintiffs ' attention by the defendants ' solicitors by letter dated 30 April 1991 as follows : |
| 9 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 10 | Jimmy 's eyes were drawn to the garish reflection of neon on the pavement outside a working-men 's club . |
| 11 | Despite a flaring anger at this impertinence her eyes were drawn to the strong column of his throat as he swallowed . |
| 12 | I saw white wool carpets on the gleaming floor and also glimpsed clothing of the costliest taffeta , lace and cambric , but my eyes were drawn to the great silk-draped four-poster bed . |
| 13 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 14 | To calculate the endurance factor , lines were drawn on the CAA half million map in an attempt to straighten out the coastline . |
| 15 | Comparisons were drawn with the US where , in spite of more severe child-care obstacles , women were making their mark because of the ‘ can-do ’ attitude that marked out anyone destined for the top . |
| 16 | By the late 1930s , the TUC was being drawn into discussions with the government and textile unions were drawn into the task of reorganizing the cotton industry , through the Acts of 1936 and 1939 . |
| 17 | Fearing the introduction of caucus politics as the first stage toward installation of a socialist regime , disaffected Liberals were drawn into the camp of the Tories ; together they formed the Municipal Alliance , and by skilful reassertion of discourses of municipal activity embodied in incorporation assimilated the challenge of labour and took power in 1900 . |
| 18 | Bishops in every diocese in France could be seen sorting out conflicts in ecclesiastical organization according to its principles ; parish priests and laymen were drawn into the processes , whether as parties to disputes or as witnesses . |
| 19 | Burakumin were conspicuous in the rice riots which erupted in 1918 , and during the 1920s buraku leaders were drawn into the general upsurge of left wing activism . |
| 20 | Under Roman rule the Illyrians were drawn into the mainstream of European culture . |
| 21 | Thus the Slovenes were drawn into the cultural and religious life of western Europe under German princes and within the spiritual jurisdiction of the Roman Church . |
| 22 | However , the Committee did emphasize the need for a much wider range of accommodation than had been provided before the war , and so they were drawn into the sharp debate about densities and preferences as between flats and houses — and this is where the link with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning proved so important . |
| 23 | Paving stones stood up and were drawn into the new building . |
| 24 | Women , peasants and young people were drawn into the political arena for the first time . |
| 25 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 26 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 27 | Both inevitably confronted , and were indeed dominated by , the problem of the differences between different human groups and ( as they were drawn into the evolutionist model ) , the problem of the descent of man and of different types of society , of which the bourgeois world appeared unquestionably the highest . |
| 28 | These new men were drawn into the new class until eventually , they overwhelmed it . |
| 29 | One general spoke of ‘ unforeseeable consequences ’ if US war planes escorting transport aircraft were drawn into the conflict . |
| 30 | The curtains were drawn over the windows looking towards Regent 's Park and he had n't turned on the light . |