Example sentences of "be draw [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 2 | The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication . |
| 3 | Television manufacturers now realise that , with comparative parity between models , consumers are less likely to be drawn towards a particular brand because of its supposed technical superiority or standard of after-sales service . |
| 4 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 5 | An analogy can be drawn to a human-being continually expending energy yet simultaneously absorbing life-force energy from the environment , which offsets the amount expended . |
| 6 | No matter which kind of ballet is being performed , it must be drawn to a proper conclusion . |
| 7 | With the frame frozen the attention of the class might be drawn to a particular gesture , or to an expression on someone 's face . |
| 8 | But Ruth would not be drawn to an old man . |
| 9 | Purely for reasons of diagrammatic simplicity we assume that the perfectly competitive industry supply curve ( Sc ) is infinitely elastic and can be drawn as a horizontal straight line as in Figure 5.2a . |
| 10 | While this part is constrained to produce only rotary motion in one plane , it may be necessary to provide additional offset functions ( in the X and Y directions ) to allow it to be drawn about a sensible ( local ) origin . |
| 11 | Since Britain was committed to defending France in the case of an invasion , it was obvious to him that Britain would be drawn into a future European war unless fascism was thwarted . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's frustrating because clubs play games but I refuse to be drawn into a Dutch auction . |
| 13 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 14 | Following the break with Moscow and the Camp David Accords the USSR also appeared anxious that Egypt could be drawn into a new Western-sponsored and Chinese-backed military bloc of conservative Middle East states . |
| 15 | When Henry VIII acceded to the throne , James let himself be drawn into a dubious alliance with the French king Louis XII , and after Henry had invaded France wrote him a brash letter demanding a cessation of hostilities . |
| 16 | The last thing Michael Harvey wanted was to be drawn into a personal discussion . |
| 17 | The small producer will be drawn into a socialised enterprise , not by means of non-economic coercion , but chiefly by the economic advantages which will provide him with a tractor , electric light bulbs , agricultural machinery and so on . |
| 18 | Power struggles are not out of the question and , if you are single , you may be drawn into a passionate , even obsessive liaison . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's his club , he has his opinion , and it 's not for me to be drawn into a public dialogue with him . |
| 20 | Consequently , rather than allowing ourselves to be drawn into a metaphysical wild-goose chase we should concentrate instead on exploring the structural features of the minimal conceptual apparatus upon which any significant choice of ontological objects must depend . |
| 21 | An ounce can be drawn into a fine wire some fifty miles long , suitable for making delicate chains and filigree as well as threads for gold lace or tissue . |
| 22 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 23 | The Arsenal striker , who scored in both north London derby games last season , refused to be drawn into a slanging match after the game but responded forcefully yesterday . |
| 24 | Various of the key terms in the thesaurus may be drawn in an alphabetical sequence , with a more complete hierarchical display of the connected terms having more specific meanings . |
| 25 | Information will be drawn from a recent legal case in the USA . |
| 26 | In other words , evidence of processes and outcomes should be drawn from a broad data base . |
| 27 | Conversely , if spatial resolution is optimized in the sense that opposing inputs are drawn from neighbouring cones , then the surround inputs can not always be drawn from a single class of cone . |
| 28 | Holes in the floor outside , and inside , the orphanage served as toilets , and water had to be drawn from a single well in the grounds , so first they set about unblocking the drains and opening sewers . |
| 29 | We will call inferences of this type bridging inferences in order to distinguish them from all the possible inferences which could be drawn from a particular sentence . |
| 30 | The water supply used to be drawn from an ancient well , remembered still by one or two of the older residents . |