Example sentences of "was [adj] draw [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Polo-playing Major Hewitt , 34 , was first drawn into the royal circle as riding instructor to Diana and Prince William .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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