Example sentences of "able to draw [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Iran-Iraq war , Iraq appears occasionally to have been able to draw on a US coverage to chart the movements of Iranian forces . |
| 2 | He is able to draw on a wealth of experience and he has attacked all his duties with surprisingly youthful enthusiasm , tempered with a great deal of patience . |
| 3 | For the latter , however , he was able to draw on a set of annals which seems to have been written in Angers , to judge from the use of the Latin verb venire ( to come ) with reference to that city . |
| 4 | Trade unions need to put their masculine houses in order , so that with more flexible working and childcare facilities they will be able to draw on a cross-representation of ideas and energy . |
| 5 | Mass meetings were the central feature of the Campaign , and the Committee was able to draw on the services of Cripps , Maxton , Pollitt , Bevan or Strauss , and virtually every prominent figure on the Left of the Labour movement . |
| 6 | Christian Aid itself would hope to be able to draw on the resources of such a centre , both indirectly through contact with the course , and directly by requesting the centre to undertake specific pieces of work on our behalf . |
| 7 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 8 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 9 | The Authority , and its schools , were able to draw on the skills of six experienced teachers ; the institute and the students were able to use the local knowledge and pragmatic insights of the schools ' staff and the advisory teacher . |
| 10 | A pen ( or stylus ) is able to draw on the LCD-screen and be shown as electronic ink . |
| 11 | In addition , the Commission was able to draw on the experience of its membership , which included a current Director of cathedral music , three former cathedral organists and the Head Master of a choir school . |
| 12 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 13 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 14 | In a constantly changing economic environment we are able to draw on the strengths of our parent companies — The Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Equitable — and create effective and flexible ways to meet the needs of people like you . |
| 15 | This is perhaps the most fundamental principle of sign systems : no matter how much they are able to draw from a sign language they attempt to match their production to the spoken language which is produced simultaneously . |
| 16 | 3D means being able to draw in the x , y and z planes . |
| 17 | Lyell was able to draw upon the work of the elder de Candolle , who had recognized that the old idea of a stable ‘ balance of Nature ’ was no longer tenable . |