Example sentences of "draw [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 2 | Such knowledge forms a single system in each individual person so that his actions and his accounts are performances drawing only upon one corpus of knowledge . |
| 3 | With an engineer 's interest in how all these tiny ‘ bones ’ had fitted together , Miller had gone far beyond his contemporaries dealing with less complex fossils , who drew in with dotted lines parts missing in their specimen . |
| 4 | They drew away from each other , so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve . |
| 5 | The inventory of the museum 's contents that he drew up with such meticulous care , accompanying his sections for each room with an admirable sketch showing the location of each item , remained in use and he catalogued the museum 's large collection of drawings by Robert Adam [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 7 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 8 | The procedure was in line with ethical guidelines that the Queen Victoria Medical Centre drew up in 1980 ( New Scientist . |
| 9 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 10 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 11 | A more general indication of his interests is given by the catalogue of his library , which he drew up in 1632 , when he had just moved house to Long Acre , Covent Garden . |
| 12 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 13 | They drew up before one of a pair of red brick semi-detached houses in a street of other houses like it . |
| 14 | Their deaths prompted Betty Williams and Anne 's sister Mairead Corrigan to begin a campaign for peace — a campaign capturing headlines around the world , a campaign that drew upwards of 3 , people to mass rallies and marches in Belfast . |
| 15 | There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow . |
| 16 | He drew back at last . |
| 17 | She drew back at this . |
| 18 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 19 | In the event , the General Council drew back from this extreme policy and the outcome was that , after months of violence and intense bitterness , George Ward won his point and unions were excluded from the Grunwick plant . |
| 20 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 21 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 22 | Ti-lo ! ’ and again the males drew closer to one another . |
| 23 | A second would be the spread of printed music into bourgeois homes in the nineteenth century ; not surprisingly , the musical language drew heavily on existing notated styles — opera and domestic song . |
| 24 | These drew heavily on psychosocial theories to explain adolescent health behaviour ( particularly social learning theory ) and were designed to help young people to develop the personal skills needed to resist social pressures to smoke . |
| 25 | In Slovakia , on the other hand , the chief victor was Vladimir Meciar 's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , whose nationalist platform drew heavily on economic discontent engendered by the harsh application of Klaus 's free-market principles , and favoured greater state intervention , if necessary supported by budget deficits . |
| 26 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 27 | Marian was alarmed and Allen drew quietly to one side so that they should not both be within reach of this giant . |
| 28 | But she proved to be a highly effective change master in her organization , responsible for many successful new projects , because she is a superb coalition builder , drawing hardly at all on her relationship with the CEO . |
| 29 | To every child in this country , there is one language with which he must necessarily be familiar , and by that , and by that alone he has the power of drawing directly from one of the great literatures of the world . |
| 30 | The individual piece-parts can be drawn on to separate layers of a working drawing in order that their movement can be visualized from any number of positions and orientations . |