Example sentences of "able to draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 2 | She will also feel able to draw on the great assets the team have to offer , namely experience and a wide knowledge of patient care . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A pen ( or stylus ) is able to draw on the LCD-screen and be shown as electronic ink . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this way , inter-party friction would be eliminated , while , at the same time , the new organization would still be able to draw on the mobilizing capacity of the old parties . |
| 10 | Here the faculty is able to draw on the wide range of professional musicians who reside in Edinburgh or visit regularly . |
| 11 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 . |