Example sentences of "drawn [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 2 | As a result Environmental Archaeology integrates information drawn widely from the environmental , biological , earth and archaeological sciences . |
| 3 | Controls matched for age and sex were drawn randomly from the same population at risk , including deaths , out migrants , and in migrants . |
| 4 | Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan 's permanent collection , the objects came to the museum in the bequests of Nelson A. Rockefeller ( 1979 ) and Jane Costello Goldberg ( from her husband Arnold 's collection ; 1987 ) , acquired by these New York collectors prior to the establishment of U.S. import restrictions of Pre-Columbian objects from Peru . |
| 5 | The strike was called by the Italian General Confederation of Labour ( CGIL ) ( with members drawn largely from the former Communist Party , the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) ) , the Christian Democrat-led CISL and the Socialist/Social Democrat-led UIL . |
| 6 | The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics . |
| 7 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 8 | His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer . |
| 9 | The house was becoming smaller now and distant , and he had the impression that he was being drawn away from it , and drawn away from the living warm world he had known . |
| 10 | It is suggested that support for such organisations is drawn disproportionately from the middle class , and in particular those sections of the middle class that feel most at threat from the structural changes taking place in contemporary British society . |
| 11 | Parliaments typically contain a section of people drawn disproportionately from the better-off sections of the community . |
| 12 | The information needed for this part of the investigation will be drawn partly from the postal survey , and also from a series of interviews with firms in each of the three countries . |
| 13 | Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall . |
| 14 | The text is illustrated with examples drawn mainly from the Roman world , although different examples from other periods and cultures could easily have been used instead . |
| 15 | Prior to the spill in May , however , the workers were provided with information on the hazards of asbestos by the Cork Noxious Industry Action Group ( CNIAG ) a group organized by political and ecological activists drawn mainly from the anti-nuclear movement . |
| 16 | Geography is studied with supporting courses that are drawn mainly from the social science programme , and flexibility and choice are the hallmarks of the degree . |
| 17 | The information from which this history has been compiled was drawn mainly from the published works and office records of the Survey and the two books , ‘ The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain' by J. S. Flett ( 1937 ) and ‘ The Geological Survey of Great Britain' by E. B. Bailey ( 1952 ) . |
| 18 | Dunning and colleagues do not pretend that football hooligans are drawn exclusively from the lower working class , or that all lower-working-class adolescents and young adults use the game as a context for fighting . |
| 19 | Given that revolutionary literature is designed to give pre-eminence to the construction of a new culture , a new man , a new reading public , drawn primarily from the working class , there arises an obvious clash of interests between the revolutionary writer and the bourgeois reading public . |
| 20 | Individual ramblers were drawn principally from the upper echelons of Victorian society , mainly aesthetes , academics and members of the legal profession . |