Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry .
2 Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession .
3 These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two .
4 Controls matched for age and sex were drawn randomly from the same population at risk , including deaths , out migrants , and in migrants .
5 The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics .
6 Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices .
7 Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall .
8 His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer .
9 A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system .
10 The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic .
11 This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer .
12 The programme for the first year was drawn up by the three partners during a week-long visit to Fife .
13 The information from which this history has been compiled was drawn mainly from the published works and office records of the Survey and the two books , ‘ The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain' by J. S. Flett ( 1937 ) and ‘ The Geological Survey of Great Britain' by E. B. Bailey ( 1952 ) .
14 All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot .
15 But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light .
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