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 | They drew away from each other , so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ti-lo ! ’ and again the males drew closer to one another . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 10 | Marian was alarmed and Allen drew quietly to one side so that they should not both be within reach of this giant . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 14 | During the period under review the top cadres of business and government administration have been drawn predominantly from similar social and educational backgrounds . |
| 15 | Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) . |
| 16 | One area which the leaders unambiguously control is the hiring of staff , and the full-time staff of the DUP is now drawn widely from all the major denominations . |
| 17 | Their techniques can vary a lot , drawn widely from psychological techniques and group dynamics . |
| 18 | The vote on party independence was boycotted , however , by 228 delegates drawn mostly from Estonian 's large ethnic Russian minority population . |
| 19 | The three of them seemed to have been inexorably drawn together with each step they had taken . |
| 20 | While the canal boatmen were away without their families the women who remained were drawn together for mutual support . |
| 21 | There could be exhibitions of the best tapestries and textiles , the finest portraiture , the most outstanding silver ; or the best of a certain period drawn together from National Trust houses ; and perhaps linked displays on craftmanship , techniques , restoration and conservation . |
| 22 | It is immediately obvious to the reader that it contains a wide variety of literary material — narratives , laws , ritual instructions , sermons , genealogies , poetry — which have been drawn together from different sources . |
| 23 | Gina recoiled , her mind spinning as his blue eyes , brilliant and intense beneath brows drawn together in thoughtful consideration , travelled over her astonished face . |
| 24 | By general management Griffiths meant " the responsibility drawn together in one person , at different levels of the organisation , for planning , implementation and control of performance " ( p. 11 ) . |
| 25 | Marc had swivelled , his face satanic , both brows drawn together in one forbidding line . |
| 26 | Two professional baseball players find their lives drawn together in unusual circumstances . |
| 27 | To reiterate , there are two main categories of relationship : the syntactic relationships mentioned above are , for example , evident in a topic such as Sugar and health where the concepts ‘ Sugar ’ and ‘ Health ’ are drawn together in this particular context . |
| 28 | " What is at stake is more than one small country ; it is a big idea : a new world order — where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause , to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind : peace and security , freedom and the rule of law . |
| 29 | What seems to have happened is that the distinction , drawn perhaps from one of the few classical instances ( of Ulpian or Papinian ) , was seized on by epi-classical law and later adopted as a post-classical touchstone . |
| 30 | Preval , who also held the portfolios of National Defence and Interior , on Feb. 19 named an eclectic Cabinet drawn largely from close associates of Aristide . |