Example sentences of "drawn [adv prt] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finale includes a cunningly constructed canon during which Ferrando , still heartbroken , at first refuses to take part , until he is gradually drawn in by the others . |
| 2 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 3 | Many children are quite happy to run , push , pull , ride and climb , but when an adult is standing by , ready to help , she is sure to be drawn in by the children as in the following example . |
| 4 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 5 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 6 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 7 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 8 | The accusation came after Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister — under fierce Labour and consumer group pressure — produced a list drawn up by the manufacturers on the 70 microwave oven models tested by Government scientists . |
| 9 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 10 | Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists … |