Example sentences of "was [adj] draw [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , Singapore was able to draw on a ready pool of Malay Chinese to supplement its workforce , but with economies in the whole region growing so rapidly , skilled labour is at a premium and countries are doing all they can to hang on to their brainpower . |
| 2 | For the latter , however , he was able to draw on a set of annals which seems to have been written in Angers , to judge from the use of the Latin verb venire ( to come ) with reference to that city . |
| 3 | In addition , the Commission was able to draw on the experience of its membership , which included a current Director of cathedral music , three former cathedral organists and the Head Master of a choir school . |
| 4 | Mass meetings were the central feature of the Campaign , and the Committee was able to draw on the services of Cripps , Maxton , Pollitt , Bevan or Strauss , and virtually every prominent figure on the Left of the Labour movement . |
| 5 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 6 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 7 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 8 | Lyell was able to draw upon the work of the elder de Candolle , who had recognized that the old idea of a stable ‘ balance of Nature ’ was no longer tenable . |
| 9 | Polo-playing Major Hewitt , 34 , was first drawn into the royal circle as riding instructor to Diana and Prince William . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt something was tugging , like a magnet , ’ says Julie , who was first drawn to a crystal when she visited a psychic fair |
| 11 | He was first drawn to the whole theme of cycles of disadvantage , he says , by some research which suggested that the mature and the middle classes use birth control more effectively than the young and the disadvantaged . |
| 12 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 13 | In the so-called ‘ pill scare ’ of 1977 attention was first drawn to the risks from thrombosis to older women on the pill ( Vessey et al . |
| 14 | Each element of the system was first drawn in a separate drawing file , within a set of working layers ( 0 to 99 ) . |