Example sentences of "[be] drawn [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure , which had been drawn up by congressional leaders and administration officials and approved by the House of Representatives on Nov. 1 by 382 votes to 37 , represented an alternative to the minimum wage bill passed by Congress in May and vetoed by President Bush . |
| 2 | Already a list has been drawn up by Italian clubs who intend to buy British following Gazza 's incredible impact . |
| 3 | Transparent hues predominate , while the edges are drawn in by both scraping back to the white ground and by applying dark lines with a gutta nib , a method also used with the watercolour . |
| 4 | Ministers are considering an embarrassing U-turn after two disastrous periods of consultation in which they were told that the lists , to be drawn up by local authorities , would cause blight on thousands of acres and hit land and property values . |
| 5 | I suppress an evil wish that an orca will be drawn in by this moving lunchbox of an animal . |
| 6 | Although we are in a missionary situation very few plans for evangelism and church planting are being drawn up by British denominations . |
| 7 | Stimulated by Gould 's remarks , he reached for a piece of paper lying near to hand — presumably one that was being drawn on by one of the zoological draughtsmen working at the Society at the time — and proceeded to write on the reverse side of the drawing . |
| 8 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 9 | It has one very curious feature ; it was drawn up by one ‘ Henry Balfour , priest of Dunkeld diocese , notary public by apostolic authority ’ , who was in fact no notary at all , and this did give ground for doubt . |
| 10 | Salt from the floors of these buildings seeped into the surrounding sub-soil and was drawn up by capillary action through the stones and mortar of the church . |