Example sentences of "are draw [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALL over Britain , office , shopping and road projects launched in the sunny days of the late 1980s are drawing to a close and building workers , their companies and shareholders are facing the economic equivalent of deep mid-winter . |
| 2 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 3 | Universities and colleges are looking to expand their intakes , but are drawing on a shrinking population of 18-year-olds . |
| 4 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 5 | Next , the selected frames of movement for PARTB are drawn into a temporary drawing file using the now established displacement functions . |
| 6 | but from this precise description we are drawn into a larger concept : |
| 7 | Although all are for solo voice we are drawn into a quasi-theatrical experience . |
| 8 | The outer points of the peltae are drawn to a greater height than are the central features , and terminate in a volute with tendrils . |
| 9 | Happy is that man whose eyes have tides like the sea and are drawn by a mystic moon . |
| 10 | A number of political scientists have suggested that societies possess a political ‘ elite ’ , that decision makers are drawn from a narrow spectrum within a society . |
| 11 | Also references in this book to the extent of soil erosion are drawn from a wide variety of sources and go some way to corroborate the view that , whether it is important or not , environmental degradation is certainly happening . |
| 12 | Contributors to Applied Linguistics are drawn from a wide variety of teaching and research backgrounds all over the world . |
| 13 | Participants are drawn from a wide range of public and private sector organisations and an emphasis on group-based learning activities enables members to learn through shared experience . |
| 14 | The more difficult question to answer is whether these leptokurtic distributions arise because futures price changes ( or returns ) are normally distributed , but the variance changes over time , thus supporting the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis , or are drawn from a stable Pareto distribution . |
| 15 | It can not be so if the managers are drawn from a different pool , which can happen if emoluments in the private sector drift too far away from those in the public sector . |
| 16 | There are two member categories : Associate members , which are drawn from a large number of manufacturers and distributors ; and Full members , consisting of companies which have been involved in successful kitchen retailing for a minimum of two years . |
| 17 | These are drawn from a residual 200 presets . |
| 18 | They are drawn in a pictorial style which not only does away with the need to use abstract symbols , but seems to bring each incident to life in a most convincing way , especially when studied alongside the text ( see two examples form the book accompanying this article ) . |