Example sentences of "drawn [adv] [prep] 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 | Her eyes had been drawn inexorably to the dark-haired , dark-suited figure , so still and silent among the laughing , chattering crowd . |
| 4 | Your eyes drawn down to the bitter earth . |
| 5 | When she came back into the office Dexter sat comatose , his eyelids drawn down like the venetian blinds , the only sign of wakefulness his fingers flicking absentmindedly through the pages of a gay magazine he had hidden inside one on gardening . |
| 6 | Controls matched for age and sex were drawn randomly from the same population at risk , including deaths , out migrants , and in migrants . |
| 7 | The wind , being drawn in through the open window , lifted the fibrous material on the top of my head so the Sun could heal the brick-shaped gash . |
| 8 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 9 | It would seem that any other harmful fumes around would be drawn in by the same means , aerosols being a prime example . |
| 10 | La Fille Mal Gardée Ashton 's English comic masterpiece Above : Lise and Colas are drawn together by the pink ribbons ; below : Alain misses Lise 's kiss ( Wendy Ellis , Wayne Eagling , Guy Niblett and The Royal Ballet ) |
| 11 | These teams were drawn together in the European Championship in West Germany last year , when England lost to the other two . |
| 12 | Robson confirmed last night that England 's friendly with the Republic of Ireland , due to be played in Dublin on March 28 , was now in doubt with the teams drawn together in the same World Cup group . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |
| 17 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 18 | His attention was drawn away from the rain-streaked windows by the sound of Gilbert 's voice , again nervously asking questions of Rohmer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Attention has been drawn above to the economic implications of similar problems in relation to education and foreign policy , though in both cases the civil service is a closely involved party . |
| 21 | Heartened by the sight of Weir standing beside Reagan on the South Lawn , the administration allowed itself to be drawn further into the Israeli-Iranian manoeuvres . |
| 22 | Its 80-kilometre , elliptical layout is designed to carry water for six million Londoners to strategically placed pump shafts , from which it can be drawn off into the local network . |
| 23 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Parliaments typically contain a section of people drawn disproportionately from the better-off sections of the community . |
| 26 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 27 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 28 | A form of rich picture was drawn up following the initial investigations , but it was used mainly as a summary of the structures , staffing levels and other essentially static factors that existed in the situation , and not as the basis for selecting a relevant system . |
| 29 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 30 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |