Example sentences of "draw up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Champagne houses were naturally outraged at the government 's ineptitude and drew up a vociferous protest , signed by eighty participants , condemning the publicity given to the ministerial communiqué .
2 Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer .
3 As a result of the rigidity of the museum 's directors , Magritte 's widow drew up a second will , and the new provisions were recognised as valid .
4 Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately .
5 She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him .
6 In 1949 , with the advent of wages , the ‘ gentlemen ’ of the FA drew up a new competition , the Professional Cup , for competition between the ‘ players ’ of Southend , Leyton Orient , Colchester United , Chelmsford City and occasionally West Ham United , Romford and Clacton Town entered .
7 As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates .
8 What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it .
9 Alison Vaissiere ( the Fair 's organiser ) : Four years ago we drew up a five-year plan ; the first theme in 1989 coincided with the tercentenary of William and Mary and was titled ‘ A tribute to the age of William and Mary ’ ; the following year was ‘ Italy and the Grand Tour ’ ; last year , ‘ The Art and influence of Japan ’ coincided with the Japan Festival ; and of course this year celebrates American patronage .
10 Wills , drew up a religious curriculum for Taunton School .
11 Undeterred , supporters of civil rights legislation drew up a similar bill for consideration in 1991 .
12 During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church .
13 A joint congressional committee drew up a common version of the two bills which was duly approved by the two chambers , and was signed into law on Sept. 22 by President Fidel Ramos .
14 They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ .
15 ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair .
16 After a few minutes , the door reopened and Eddie returned with a mug of tea , drew up a third chair and sat down .
17 I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity .
18 A relocation team representing all parts of the business and every production shift drew up a military-style plan to carry out the operation .
19 It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates .
20 This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 .
21 Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state .
22 An official of the Association of British Insurers , which drew up the new insurance ratings , conceded that the structure , which is due to be introduced on July 1 , is being revised ‘ almost daily . ’
23 In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen .
24 Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal .
25 A Shrewsbury architect , Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , had the idea and drew up the original plan , but the design was modified in the process of building the bridge .
26 In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government .
27 Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document .
28 The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate .
29 The NCC , the government body dealing with the statutory designation of nature reserves , drew up an initial list of seven sites warranting Marine Nature Reserve status — Lundy Island and the Isles of Scilly in England , St Abbs Head and Loch Sween in Scotland and Skomer , Menai Strait and Bardsey in Wales .
30 Following the report , the National Union of Teachers ' ‘ stress project team ’ then drew up an organisational action plan which , it argued , would , if implemented , reduce the sources of stress .
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