Example sentences of "[was/were] drawn from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
| 2 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 3 | After 1905 , however , a growing proportion of party cadres were drawn from the working class . |
| 4 | The combat troops were drawn from the Seventh Infantry Division , part of an 8,000-strong party of reinforcements dispatched to Panama on Wednesday night . |
| 5 | It is clear , too , that although most of the Londoners involved were drawn from the poorer classes of society , matters were complicated by factions in the city government . |
| 6 | Its priests were drawn from the ruling houses of the tribes , many of whose sons became Druids , and sometimes even the kings themselves , as in the case of Diviacus , the friend of Caesar . |
| 7 | The 1,100 delegates were drawn from the ruling Congolese Party of Labour ( PCT ) of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso , and from approximately 100 opposition groups . |
| 8 | Many of the prominent citizens , when their origins can be traced , were drawn from the lesser landed class , who may have given them moral or financial support . |
| 9 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 10 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 11 | The members of the Council were drawn from the national governments and had the task of counterbalancing the High Authority 's supranationalism . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 13 | In many repects the bishops of the Merovingian kingdom were like secular magnates , and for the most part they were drawn from the same class . |
| 14 | In Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century , for example , the highest-ranking bureaucrats were drawn from the land-owning class , while the bourgeoisie constituted the hegemonic class . |
| 15 | The crowds were drawn from the popular classes . |
| 16 | Most ministers were drawn from the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) . |
| 17 | The 115 raiders were drawn from the Independent Companies as No.11 Independent Company carrying half the British stock of Thompson sub-machine guns : 20 tommy-guns . |
| 18 | Much of Adams ' set was drawn from the multi-platinum ‘ Reckless ’ album . |
| 19 | The membership was drawn from the industrial conurbations of Yorkshire , and placed an emphasis on self-improvement and knowledge and understanding of the countryside . |
| 20 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 21 | Ms Oruene told the two-day hearing in Edinburgh last month that only one practising advocate in Scotland was drawn from the ethnic minorities . |
| 22 | Unfortunately our Mid-Term Wave was drawn from the 1986 British Social Attitudes Survey which asked no questions about television viewing or radio listening . |
| 23 | Much of this information was drawn from the self-appraisal report . |
| 24 | Its membership was drawn from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Technical and Administrative Staffs Section ( AUEW TASS ) , the CSJ , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Belfast trades council , the Republican Clubs , the Ulster Liberal Party , the NDP , the RLP , the Ardoyne Tenants ' Association and the NILP . |
| 25 | This group was drawn from the 15 to 19-year-olds and the ABC1 socio-economic group . |