Example sentences of "to draw a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To present them lucidly , and to draw a long line out of such material , is the pianist 's task ; and Postnikova hardly falters . |
| 2 | She swallowed , – forced herself to draw a long breath . |
| 3 | imagine our feelings on raising our beads to draw a long breath when the last sheep was in , to find another large flock making Its way towards us . |
| 4 | In one of the morning 's brief , structured lessons the pupils were told to draw a still life composed of cups , a tea pot and a coffee pot . |
| 5 | Any design can be created in any of these seven formats and it will not matter on bit that you have used the Fair Isle option to draw a four colour jacquard design . |
| 6 | As we have seen , the policy process is dynamic and flexible , and it is not possible in the real world to draw a firm distinction between policy initiation and policy implementation . |
| 7 | The draw , which will divide the 24 qualifiers into groups and determine the nine venues , is expected to draw a worldwide TV audience of more than one billion and be attended by 10,000 dignitaries , soccer officials and media personnel . |
| 8 | Haviland and Clark found that the reaction time difference between the two conditions remained and therefore concluded that the additional time taken to comprehend the target sentence in the indirect antecedent condition arose because of the need to draw a bridging inference . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , both clubs went bust just as we were starting to draw a decent audience ! |
| 10 | She paused to draw a deep breath . |
| 11 | ‘ I just do , ’ she started and then stopped to draw a deep breath . |
| 12 | But Geoff Cooke and company will have had to draw a deep breath , and had need of all their courage , if they have picked him ahead of Rob Andrew as the other stand-off to Stuart Barnes . |
| 13 | Of course , that does not always happen because the judge is entitled to draw a reasonable inference from the evidence that one party was entirely to blame even though he can not decide on the basis of the evidence exactly how an accident happened . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is unwise to draw a final conclusion , but the balance seems to be against systematic enforcement of modus for public purposes , and for enforcement of trusts of that kind . |
| 15 | The middle summary point is not used to draw a straight line , but it should not lie too far from the line if the underlying relationship really is linear . |
| 16 | Scanners , or digitisers , are the answer for the majority of us who struggle to draw a straight line , let alone a circle . |
| 17 | In 1877 he published his best-known work , How to Draw a Straight Line . |
| 18 | This is rather like being able to draw a straight line tangent at any point on a smooth curve . |
| 19 | have we got the we have n't got the thing to draw a straight line have we ? |
| 20 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |
| 21 | Darwin 's theory provides a classic example of how difficult it is to draw a sharp distinction between ‘ natural history ’ and ‘ biology ’ : the process of evolution must of necessity mediate between the reproductive process that maintains the population and the environment to which the population must adapt . |
| 22 | At that point the company decided to draw a partial veil over the proceedings |
| 23 | To demonstrate his ability to draw a wide range of support from within Labour 's ranks , Mr Smith was flanked at a press conference in the Jubilee Room , off Westminster 's Great Hall , by Mr Robin Cook , from the Left of the party , and Dr John Cunningham , from the Right . |
| 24 | But when he tries to draw a larger moral ( an arraignment of the Thatcherite Eighties , needless to say ) he slips into soft-headed nostalgia for the wonderful lost world of Communist ideals . |
| 25 | A small Scandinavian cylindrical tankard on three pomegranate feet sold for £4,200 , estimate £1,500–2,500 ( Scandinavian tankards , both silver and wood , tend to draw a determined group of avid repatriators ) . |
| 26 | And yet [ wa ma'a thaalik ] , it is impossible to draw a full picture of Arab political humour , reflecting the psychology of the Arab peoples , their way of thinking , and their politics without casting an overall glance on Arab history , beginning at least with the rise of Islam . |
| 27 | However , there is a distinction between their own conclusions , and inviting them to draw a particular conclusion by inflaming their suspicions . |
| 28 | As has been implied , the motivation of the regionalist novelists was often extra-literary , the novel being used as a vehicle to draw a particular situation to the eyes of the world , to influence public opinion and , thereby , to bring about social change . |
| 29 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 30 | To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil , a pair of oxen , yoked together was used . |