Example sentences of "[noun] drawn [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 2 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 3 | Your eyes drawn down to the bitter earth . |
| 4 | The " Wildlife Enhancement Scheme " , which is to be trialled in the Culm Measures of Devon and the Pevensey Levels of Sussex , will offer annual management payments in return for agreement from landowners/occupiers to manage the land for conservation , on the basis of a plan drawn up with the local English Nature officer . |
| 5 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 6 | Their freedom comes after Saddam Hussein has welcomed the Gulf peace plan drawn up by the French President , Francois Mitterand . |
| 7 | We will decentralise planning decisions as much as possible , giving a key role to the local plan drawn up by the local authority . |
| 8 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 9 | Every resident has one member of staff who acts as a personal ‘ key worker ’ , responsible for making sure that the care plans drawn up by the professional staff and the individual residents are implemented . |
| 10 | In many respects Standy Credits are preferable to Bank Guarantees because virtually all Credits , including Standby Credits , issued by banks are subject to a set of internationally accepted rules drawn up by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris , known as UCP 400 . |
| 11 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 13 | The aid was part of a package drawn up by the responsible EC Commissioner , Abel Matutes Juan , as part of the EC 's contribution to economic development in the region ( in particular by creating jobs and thus reducing emigration pressures ) and of its efforts to stimulate the political dialogue with Arab countries and Israel . |
| 14 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 15 | There is little doubt that the Serbs would want to retain most of what they now occupy , whereas the Croats would want to return to frontiers drawn up by the late Marshal Tito . |
| 16 | The following is a declaration of the rights of television viewers drawn up by the French Association of Television Viewers . |
| 17 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 18 | France had also opposed the imposition of tighter controls on the ownership of guns , on the grounds that the right to bear arms had been incorporated into the Constitution drawn up after the 1789 revolution-although it had also demanded the right to suspend the travel rights enshrined in the Schengen agreement in cases of emergency ( for earlier disagreements see p. 36154 ) . |
| 19 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 20 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | One pair of curtains drawn back to the two outer corners of the bay will look attractive , but they will cut down the light from the side windows . |
| 22 | As she moved , restless beneath his scrutiny , with a mocking gesture he indicated one of the armchairs drawn up to the flower-filled fireplace . |
| 23 | What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st . |
| 24 | A memorandum drawn up by the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry on July 18 , and sent to the Arab League the next day , stated that the Iraqi charges had " no factual basis " . |
| 25 | The existing LFA boundaries are based largely on a line drawn up in the 1940s and hardly modified since . |
| 26 | When she came back into the office Dexter sat comatose , his eyelids drawn down like the venetian blinds , the only sign of wakefulness his fingers flicking absentmindedly through the pages of a gay magazine he had hidden inside one on gardening . |
| 27 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 28 | ‘ I only know that the Meeting Notice was sent out according to a list drawn up by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 29 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 30 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |