Example sentences of "[was/were] draw [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 2 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 3 | Its 60 members were drawn equally from the Parliament and the Congress of Estonia , a 495-member body elected as a pressure group in March 1990 by citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants . |
| 4 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 5 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 6 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 7 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 8 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 9 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 10 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 11 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 12 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 13 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 16 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 17 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 18 | Its original boundaries were drawn up without the benefit of any systematic survey ; no LFA land was de-designated when the UK LFA was substantially extended early in 1984 to include the so-called marginal land . |
| 19 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 20 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 21 | Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession . |
| 22 | They walked in the deer park and its surrounding beech woods ; they followed the lanes to Putsham , Holford and Crowcombe ; and they were drawn repeatedly to the sea at Kilve and into the Quantocks . |
| 23 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 24 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 25 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 26 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 27 | It is thanks to these men of ability and vision that the deaf communities in Britain became so well established and respected , and that the deaf communities were drawn together into a national movement which after a false start exists to this day in the British Deaf Association . |
| 28 | The various laws relating to incitement to racial hatred hitherto scattered in such diverse places as the Public Order Act 1936 ( as amended ) the Theatres Act 1968 and the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 were drawn together in a single Act . |
| 29 | His brows were drawn together in a frown , his face still ; the reflected light from the brazier made his fairness ruddy that was usually so pale and clear , but even so the likeness was extreme . |
| 30 | These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two . |