Example sentences of "was drawing to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demobilization was drawing to an end , and many of the suffering migrants like the Famine refugees and the wandering hordes of orphans and youths could not often afford to take a train . |
| 2 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 3 | They say that as the meeting was drawing to its conclusion , everyone was waiting for a certain person to utter a few graceful words by way of a thank-you to the summit host , Mr Mitterrand . |
| 4 | As Lowe 's international playing career was drawing to a close , another RAF pilot who was destined to have a considerable influence on the style and development of English rugby began his . |
| 5 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 6 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 7 | But a change was in the air , a season was drawing to a close . |
| 8 | It was six o'clock and at Larksoken Power Station , the weekly interdepartmental meeting was drawing to a close . |
| 9 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 10 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
| 11 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 12 | But Anselm had another reason for action : the procedure he had started eighteen months earlier for excommunicating the king if he did not return the lands and revenues of the archbishopric was drawing to its end . |
| 13 | When I left the Falkland Islands there were signs that summer there was drawing to a close . |
| 14 | The European struggle was drawing to a close but in the Pacific and Far East the savage struggle continued . |
| 15 | The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends . |
| 16 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 17 | The 1960s were years of great opportunities and great expansion in education ; in the 1970s the opportunities still existed , but the expansion was drawing to a close . |
| 18 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 19 | It was spring and the war in Europe was drawing to a close . |
| 20 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 21 | She could see that the game was drawing to a close — nearly all the pieces on the board had disappeared — and although she had no idea who was winning she thought that the gladiators needed sustenance . |
| 22 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 23 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 24 | The government had published the employment White Paper , and the war was drawing to a close . |
| 25 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 26 | Perhaps , thought Morse , the illicit little office affair was drawing to its close . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he regarded Khrushchev 's initiatives in Berlin and , later , in Cuba as the final flings of a conflict that was drawing to a close . |
| 28 | By the time the eighth ‘ Carry On ’ film went before the cameras when Gentle Jack was drawing to its conclusion , he was established as the honorary patron of the club . |