Example sentences of "was draw [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lowe 's international playing career was drawing to a close , another RAF pilot who was destined to have a considerable influence on the style and development of English rugby began his . |
| 2 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 3 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 4 | But a change was in the air , a season was drawing to a close . |
| 5 | It was six o'clock and at Larksoken Power Station , the weekly interdepartmental meeting was drawing to a close . |
| 6 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 7 | When I left the Falkland Islands there were signs that summer there was drawing to a close . |
| 8 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 9 | The 1960s were years of great opportunities and great expansion in education ; in the 1970s the opportunities still existed , but the expansion was drawing to a close . |
| 10 | It was spring and the war in Europe was drawing to a close . |
| 11 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 12 | The government had published the employment White Paper , and the war was drawing to a close . |
| 13 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 14 | On the other hand , he regarded Khrushchev 's initiatives in Berlin and , later , in Cuba as the final flings of a conflict that was drawing to a close . |
| 15 | It was the year of the Queen 's Silver Jubilee and the Prince , just twenty-nine , was drawing to the end of his first year as a full-time working member of the ‘ family firm ’ . |
| 16 | Demobilization was drawing to an end , and many of the suffering migrants like the Famine refugees and the wandering hordes of orphans and youths could not often afford to take a train . |
| 17 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 18 | By this time Lutyens was drawing on every menu card available — not even the napkins and tablecloths escaped — enthusiastically filling them with plans and designs . |
| 19 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 20 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 21 | This portrait was drawn at the time . |
| 22 | The gun was drawn on a back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |
| 23 | A circle of 189.26mm radius ( representing the 2.94 miles radius ) was drawn on an acetate sheet and the resulting overlay superimposed on the map . |
| 24 | Although Boardwalk was drawn on the inside , Kelly hoped to get a good enough break to be able to settle third or fourth . |
| 25 | The chart was drawn on the spot and left with the parents . |
| 26 | And John Henry was drawn on the outside in the starting gate at number 12 . |
| 27 | Last week , my attention was drawn to a document headed ’ Oldham , Central and Royton Labour Party ’ about the ’ Royal Oldham Hospital Opt-out ’ , and bearing the name of Mr Bryan Davies , a former Member of this House who still works in the precincts of the House and who is the prospective parliamentary condidate for Oldham , Central and Royton . |
| 28 | It was drawn to a scale of sixty yards to one inch , or twenty nine inches to one mile . |
| 29 | Eventually I was drawn to a sign in the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society advertising 11.3 per cent . ’ |
| 30 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |