Example sentences of "drew to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome . |
| 2 | As the campaign drew to a close , however , readers of lowbrow papers detected significantly more bias . |
| 3 | Also as the campaign drew to a close , partisan voters alleged more unfavourable bias on television news and more favourable bias in their daily papers . |
| 4 | As the broadcast drew to a close a voice proclaimed ‘ a vote cast for any parties which oppose each other is a vote for conflict ’ . |
| 5 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 6 | The year 1968 drew to a close and with it the life of Londonderry Corporation . |
| 7 | During the 2nd World War seasons , as his career drew to a close , Albert became a magnificent utility player for the Palace , turning out in any position : as a full-back one week , a winger or striker the next , then as centre-half the next ! |
| 8 | At last the evening drew to a close and outdoor clothes were brought down from where they had been laid on beds . |
| 9 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 10 | As the afternoon drew to a close , Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard . |
| 11 | As the reform decade drew to a close , China appeared to be approaching a crisis situation , with rising inflation , food shortages , official corruption and other economic and social problems becoming more apparent . |
| 12 | But as the swinging '60s drew to a close , pop 's cheery effervescence began to lose its fizz and the kids developed a taste for stronger stuff in the shape of ‘ rock ’ . |
| 13 | Eventually , as winter set in and the year drew to a close , Praag fell and the hordes of Chaos ran amuck . |
| 14 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 15 | As the 1930s drew to a close and the shadow of war fell across Europe , a concern about ‘ the state of the nation ’ was clearly detectable . |
| 16 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 17 | Cartoonists were kept busy during the Bodyline series , some mischievously , some , like this one , poignantly as the unhappy Australian summer drew to a close |
| 18 | Nevertheless as his reign drew to a close Louis was perhaps more hated and certainly more despised than any king of France for generations . |
| 19 | The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while . |
| 20 | Every time a record drew to a close my heart started up again , my mind went blank about what came next , and my glasses slid down my perspiring nose . |
| 21 | As the campaign drew to a close , a more positive note was sounded with advertisements offering a vision of a " new South Africa " with racial harmony and economic prosperity . |
| 22 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 23 | As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations . |
| 24 | As the course year drew to a close , management development courses have clocked up 477 trainee days . |
| 25 | The Green Party Conference drew to a close today and they certainly had something to talk about with the publication of the government 's White Paper on the environment . |
| 26 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 27 | The coach drew to a jerky halt near the curbside . |
| 28 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |