Example sentences of "to draw [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |
| 2 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |
| 3 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 4 | The Asian Development Bank awarded a consultancy to BGS to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 5 | Laos Following the award to BGS in August 1990 of a six-month Asian Development Bank consultancy , a BGS-led team comprising a geologist , an exploration geochemist , a bibliographer and a cartographer , together with a mineral economist from British Mining Consultants Limited , worked at the Department of Geology and Mines ( DGM ) , Vientiane , between September 1990 and March 1991 to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 6 | With BCM delegates reserving their position , the remaining delegates adopted the Harare declaration and further resolved to call for a ‘ constituent assembly , established on a non-racial basis and representing all the people of South Africa , to draw up a new constitution for our country ’ . |
| 7 | One of the committees of the Parliamentary Council established in 1948 to draw up a new constitution was given the task of preparing a new electoral law . |
| 8 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |
| 9 | A commission was appointed to draw up a new constitution which would be put to a referendum in mid-1990 . |
| 10 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 11 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 12 | A conference on Aug. 16-19 attended by representatives of 14 political parties as well as church , trade union , student and business leaders , called for the establishment of an all-party transitional government which would conduct elections for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 13 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 14 | Two days later , Mobutu was quoted as saying that the conference would convene on April 29 to draw up a new constitution which , if approved by a referendum , would lead to multiparty politics . |
| 15 | Opposition parties repeated their call for the election of a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 16 | He was then granted full power for six months as well as authority to draw up a new constitution , which would be put to a popular referendum for ratification . |
| 17 | If this small group tried to draw up a new market contract , bargaining would be protracted because of the known absence of alternative partners . |
| 18 | It would not be difficult to draw up a similar set of misunderstandings from a survey of pupils in the classroom . |
| 19 | After the meeting it was announced that the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council would convene after the formation of a new Lebanese government in October to draw up a comprehensive timetable for a Syrian withdrawal . |
| 20 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 21 | Having read through the er N Y N Y six and N Y seven , I 've got to acknowledge that it 's er far from easy to draw up a unified strategy for employment land in North Yorkshire and I can sympathize with the County Council er in their difficulties with the methodology and I think that they 've adopted a very fair minded approach to this , they 've er highlighted weaknesses wherever they occur , erm and I think that will be very obvious . |
| 22 | Any attempt to draw up a wider programme would have to rely overwhelmingly on the only information available to the Opposition — the autumn statement in its present form . |
| 23 | In its report , The Fight Against Fraud ( HL Paper 44 , HMSO , £6.60 ) , the Committee calls on the Commission to draw up a specific action programme for the Council of Ministers to consider , setting out the times by which each element is to be completed and requiring that progress reports , accompanied by a report from the Court of Auditors , should be submitted to the European and national Parliaments . |
| 24 | The second world climate conference , held in Geneva in early November , ended with an agreement to work towards a convention on limiting global warming , but failed to draw up a specific strategy for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases . |
| 25 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 26 | At the December 1974 summit of Community leaders in Paris the Belgian premier , Leo Tindemans , was asked to draw up a personal report on the future shape of a European Union . |
| 27 | He said that if deputies took such a blinkered view of property relations and of lessening the economic power of the state over production , they would be unable to draw up a logical law reflecting the need for better social conditions . |
| 28 | At the end of the overview phase , it is possible to draw up a second interview plan and the next , longer , phase aims to fill in the detail . |
| 29 | I have asked Lord Ferrers to work on this with the Chief Police Officers , Sir George Young at the Department of Environment and Nick Scott at the Department of Social Security to draw up a strong package of measures which can improve our ability to protect the rural public against these parasites . |
| 30 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |