Example sentences of "was [adv] draw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen was instinctively drawn towards the one area of disorder , a desk piled with leaflets , envelopes , magazines , newspapers , letters and bills . |
| 2 | In the first two years of this period President Milton Obote 's party , the United People 's Congress ( UPC ) formed a coalition with the Kabaka Yekka ( KY ) Party whose support was entirely drawn from the Buganda people , and whose ultimate loyalty was to the kabaka who was also appointed President of Uganda . |
| 3 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 4 | Isabel heard herself ask the question but her attention was suddenly drawn to the servant setting food and trenchers on the table . |
| 5 | This team was largely drawn from the former municipal tramways and included G. V. Stanley and L. Marriott from Croydon Corporation . |
| 6 | In the Act the objective of EMU was stated ; the Regional Fund was defined ; the legal scope of the EC was extended to such areas as environment , technological co-operation and social policy ; the system of foreign ministers ' meetings , held since 1970 , was formally drawn under the EC umbrella ; the use of majority votes was extended ( although the vexed issue of the Luxembourg Compromise was not tackled ) ; and most importantly , under pressure from the Commission , it was decided to achieve a genuine ‘ common market ’ in 1992 with the free movement of people , goods and capital throughout the EC . |
| 7 | Like much of the rest of the Continent , Muscovy was gradually drawing on the example of dynamic elements in the countries of the Atlantic seaboard . |
| 8 | But he was also drawn to the Jews whom he met in their Polish villages , victims of persecution and war , ‘ old Jews with prophets ’ beards and passionate rags ' , to their ruined ghettoes and synagogues . |
| 9 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 10 | Attention was often drawn to the need to develop continuity within curriculum areas and between school and school . |
| 11 | When legislative change was being considered , attention was often drawn to the so-called ‘ perverse incentive ’ that saved local services money if they supported people in residential care rather than in their own homes . |
| 12 | It was often drawn with the slopes exaggerated by a constant as natural slopes are usually so gentle . |
| 13 | On receiving my September issue of Golf Monthly , my attention was immediately drawn to the ‘ Queue or Quit ’ article . |
| 14 | William was invariably drawn to the darkness , finding a deeper , more complex truth in the world of myth and superstition ; to the ‘ poor mad nuns down the convent ’ ; to the world of Mother Bernard and her visions of Hell and Damnation ; to the demons and the shadows … |
| 15 | Mr Brown said it was ‘ included only under the broadest heading — Treasury running costs — was never drawn to the attention of the Audit Office as a special feature and has never been investigated by the Audit Office , something which should now happen ’ . |