Example sentences of "have been drawn [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attention has been drawn to the item ‘ Managers should have conduct code ’ ( pg6 , September 30 ) . |
| 2 | Since we compiled the answer relating to company names and trade marks , our attention has been drawn to the case of Mothercare UK Ltd v Penguin ( 1987 ) which appears to have been reported only in the Times on 8 July 1987 . |
| 3 | More recently , attention has been drawn to the evangelising potential of the aesthetic . |
| 4 | Our attention has been drawn to the fact that this could be read as a suggestion that illegal or improper activities were taking place within the club . |
| 5 | Recent attention has been drawn to the role of autonomic function in risk stratification . |
| 6 | But attention has been drawn to the close interaction between the socio-political structure of the major protagonists and the foreign policies they pursued . |
| 7 | The letter of 5 June 1992 from the Clerk of the House of Commons starts by saying , ‘ My attention has been drawn to the fact that the House of Lords may be asked to hear argument in this case based on the meaning or significance of words spoken during proceedings on a Bill in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 8 | The letter enters the public domain as soon as it has been drawn to the attention of the Select Committee , and the Government may use it in Council discussions — which they do if they find it helpful to their position . |
| 9 | Particular attention has been drawn to the significance of a developing internal street network within the overall plan , in contrast to the ribbon developments which remained dependent upon the main roads . |
| 10 | As the precaution was taken of recording ticket number disposed of , a name has been drawn to the attention of the Hon. |
| 11 | My attention has been drawn to the complex and inelegant Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , and , in particular , to its possible consequences for children 's hearings . |
| 12 | MY ATTENTION has been drawn to the letter from Muriel Green ( HAS May 5 ) , chairwoman of the education committee , North Tyneside Council , in which she defends the comprehensive school ideal . |
| 13 | Before it gets there a barricade of grey concrete blocks daubed with ‘ Free Lithuania ’ and ‘ Independence for Baltic Countries ’ has been drawn across the street . |
| 14 | President Bush tells the American people that " a line has been drawn in the sand " and that as many as 50,000 US troops may be dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | Some of his soft-ground plates of plants — tree roots and details of vegetation and rocks could have been drawn on the spot , in fact where the reversal of the image was not of importance or obvious . |
| 16 | Nina would have been drawn to the light , just as Anne had been . |
| 17 | If monarchs abuse liberty , or if revolutions succeed only in replacing one unreasonable sovereign by another , then critics such as Gillray , Junius or even Burke might have been drawn to the republican camp . |
| 18 | They took to calling his specimens ‘ buffons ’ , their attention having been drawn to the word by the sight of Huxley 's copy of Buffon 's Natural history , which in a series of many volumes , displayed the name repeatedly in large gilt letters on a shelf in the chart room . |
| 19 | Having been drawn into the awareness , having re-experienced it in our bodies , we can then stand outside it and see what its meaning is for us . |
| 20 | No one will BE the same from now on having been drawn into the realms of mystery and taken to new depths . |
| 21 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 22 | And so the lines had been drawn for the battle that still raged , feminists and FAMILY glaring balefully at each other over the dying body of the welfare state . |
| 23 | Fortunately , most of the crowd had been drawn to the main attraction of The Great Whirlo in the Variety Tent at that particular point in the afternoon . |
| 24 | Mr Porter also confirmed that a further complaint , made by chairman of the Nick Young Victims Group Richard Hornsby , had been drawn to the committee 's attention . |
| 25 | Indeed , several of the researchers noted that their evidence was produced after the plight of the elderly had been drawn to the attention of employers , foremen , and co-workers ( Shenfield 1957 ; Acton Society Trust 1960 ; Fleming 1963 ) . |
| 26 | The restrictive nature of the Stock Exchange 's rulebook had been drawn to the attention of the Director General of Fair Trading as early as 1976 ; three years later proceedings commenced . |
| 27 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 28 | She tells us that she had studied scripture from childhood , and had been drawn to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation at the age of fifteen , in 1636 . |
| 29 | Tom Horrocks , who might otherwise have furnished a convenient buffer , had been drawn to the kitchen by the smell of newly baked bread , and was doubtless flirting disgracefully with Tilly and the kitchen-maids . |
| 30 | More people had been drawn to the area since Stephen had been there , but the settlement was still small and the opportunities for the adventurous pioneer still great . |