Example sentences of "drawn [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 2 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 3 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 4 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 5 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 6 | If you keep that in your mind you wo n't get yourself drawn in on a f false premise that you must be okay . |
| 7 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 8 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 9 | Curator Maryan Ainsworth of the Metropolitan Museum is quick to note that , ‘ The thorny problem of underdrawings and workshop practice in , for example , the works of Lucas Cranach and his circle is not easily resolved through underdrawing analysis , since in many cases , the picture was drawn in with a non-carbon substance , like iron-gall brown ink , that is not penetrated by infra-red , and is invisible on the reflectogram screens . |
| 10 | Continuous flow machines form a tunnel made up of separate sections , wash and rinse , which operate continuously while items are drawn through on a link conveyor . |
| 11 | The stainless steel split pins were then removed from the 14 castellated nuts and the main caps drawn off with a length of 1/2″ BSF threaded rod and a large section of channel . |
| 12 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 13 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 14 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 15 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 16 | A SHROUD , is composed of a peculiar kind of flannel , woven on purpose , and called shrouding flannel ; it is made of a breadth and a half , full length , so as to cover the feet ; one seam is sewed up , leaving the other open behind , like a pinafore ; slits are cut for arm-holes , and plain long sleeves , without gussets set in ; the front is gathered at the waist , and drawn up into a narrow piece ; this is twice repeated , at intervals of three nails down the skirt , upon each of these gatherings , round the neck and at the wrists , a kind of border of the same flannel , punched at the edge in a pattern , is plaited , and an edging of the same is made at the bottom . |
| 17 | And in the second version he introduces a three-dimensional hand not , as in the Velázquez with the fingers straight and limp , but drawn up into an uneasy gesture , that claws at her skirt rather than rests against it . |
| 18 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 19 | When a plan drawn up during a period of supply crisis fails to analyse thoroughly the question of the balance of supply and demand this of course is no ‘ external ’ defect , no ‘ formal ’ omission , but a profoundly internal fault . |
| 20 | An artists impression was drawn up of a man who was asking for directions to her home earlier in the day . |
| 21 | A wing-hair was drawn up to a crackling wood fire and Mrs Gotobed sat in it . |
| 22 | To show the client what you are proposing , commercials are sometimes read and described ; sometimes a narrative tape is recorded which is a spoken description of the action , perhaps backed by music ; or sometimes a " story board " is drawn up with a number of key frames illustrating what viewers will see on the TV screen . |
| 23 | A local budget can be drawn up with a degree of devolved responsibility . |
| 24 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 25 | Contracts are drawn up with an eye to flexibility and a contract is often considered an agreement to enter into a general course of conduct rather than something fixing precise terms . |
| 26 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 27 | Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class . |
| 28 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 29 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 30 | As we have seen , he argues that trade union government will be relatively centralised where agreements are drawn up for an industry or an entire country , and will be relatively decentralised where they are regionally- or plant-based . |