Example sentences of "draw [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 2 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 3 | but from this precise description we are drawn into a larger concept : |
| 4 | An investigation by Allan ( 1979 ) , for instance , found that not only did the middle class have more friends , but they were also drawn from a greater variety of social settings and over a wider geographical area . |
| 5 | They were drawn from a deeper and darker place than this whiskery , milky , dungy communion with the cattle . |
| 6 | This sample was provided for the project by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and was in turn drawn from a larger sample of 500 households which the Executive had used for their own survey of housing patterns in the city ( cf. |
| 7 | Instead of facing Ruud Gullit , Jean-Pierre Papin , Marco van Basten and company Rangers were drawn in a slighter weaker group along with French giants Marseilles , Bruges of Belgium and dark horses CSKA Moscow . |
| 8 | The outer points of the peltae are drawn to a greater height than are the central features , and terminate in a volute with tendrils . |
| 9 | They 're trying to draw from a wider , yeah |
| 10 | For , whilst core teams are made up almost exclusively from social workers and community mental handicap nurses , the larger teams draw on a wider range of professionals . |
| 11 | In addition to the two partners , the project is to draw on an earlier agreement between Northern Telecom and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc for developing Service Management Systems . |
| 12 | ‘ Companies would benefit by drawing from a wider pool of talent and ability than is currently considered , ’ he writes , ‘ and it would enable them to appoint more women . |
| 13 | There is no means of negotiation or experimentation whereby the user can define his query , drawing from a wider knowledge base of the system , before following specific paths . |
| 14 | And Cavalcanti 's Went the Day Well ? ( 1943 , Forty-eight Hours in US ) , draws upon a broader range of influences . |
| 15 | It derives from an earlier advisory group on computer security , although ITSAG draws on a wider membership than its predecessor ( including a bigger proportion of end users ) . |
| 16 | This novel draws on a later phase of Federman 's life to refer to ( but not describe ) journeys across America . |
| 17 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 18 | Drawing on an earlier record of municipal activity and labour representation , it was able to consolidate its position at a time of hope for a new future by an active fusion of Labour Party , trade union and cooperative effort . |