Example sentences of "be drawn by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France .......... 27 Home Unions XV .. 29 THE LIONS ' claws have not been drawn by the two months they have had apart since Australia . |
| 2 | This school trip was not an annual event , but a newly-organized affair , to which the school 's attention had been drawn by the tireless Miss Haines ; it was to take place in Clara 's last year , when she was seventeen , a year after her father 's death . |
| 3 | The heat-seekers would be drawn by the steaming wound in the rock face , Defries realized ; they 'd ignore Daak . |
| 4 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 6 | But we were drawn by the Romantic taste in scenery , what Bertrand Russell called ‘ wild torrents , fearful precipices , pathless forests , thunderstorms and generally what is useless , destructive and violent ’ . |
| 7 | Quarter-million-dollar incomes ( not including bonuses ) were drawn by the top oil company bosses . |
| 8 | To Slumptown have also been attracted many from other countries who during the 1950s were drawn by the glittering promises of prosperity diligently advertised by Great Britain . |