Example sentences of "[noun pl] drawn [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 2 | The stainless steel split pins were then removed from the 14 castellated nuts and the main caps drawn off with a length of 1/2″ BSF threaded rod and a large section of channel . |
| 3 | However , the matter is less clear cut where a party uses typed precedents drawn up by its lawyers as a basis for starting negotiations . |
| 4 | When Penry returned he smiled in approval to find her propped tidily against the pillows , covers drawn up to her chin . |
| 5 | All entries to the Supercrozzle will be put in a drum and the first correct entries drawn out will be the winners . |
| 6 | Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment . |
| 7 | Local guidelines drawn up in accordance with Working Together govern the circumstances in which a conference may be convened and who may attend . |
| 8 | The guidelines drawn here ( Figure 2 ) are based on the familiar mallard , a dabbling duck and the pochard , a more streamlined diving duck . |
| 9 | The concept , as employed by orthodox Marxism , goes from the singular to the universal and therefore , Sartre claims , detotalizes in a movement of ‘ decompressive expansion ’ , whereas incarnation involves ‘ a way of totalizing compression which , on the contrary , seizes the centripetal movement of all the significations drawn in and condensed in the event or in the object ’ ( II , 59 ) . |
| 10 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 11 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 12 | Under the country 's Constitution the President was elected by popular vote from a list of candidates drawn up from among members of the House . |
| 13 | Under the country 's constitution the President was elected by popular vote from a list of three or four candidates drawn up from amongst members of the legislature . |
| 14 | Glancing surreptitiously around , she glimpsed knowing smiles and heads drawn close as people whispered . |
| 15 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 16 | Your eyes drawn down to the bitter earth . |
| 17 | When they are moving about and their legs are held apart from the body the splash-pattern is not obvious , but once they crouch motionless , with their legs drawn up to their sides , their trunk and leg patches meet and obscure the divisions between them . |
| 18 | The women sat on a mastaba against a sunny wall with their legs drawn up into red velvet skirts . |
| 19 | He gasped , winded , and she twisted off him quickly and sat up , legs drawn up to her chest , chewing her wet knee . |
| 20 | Once there , she sat nervously on the edge of a Louis XIV chair , her bare legs drawn together , her hands in her lap . |
| 21 | It was lying on its side with its legs drawn stiffly up to a grossly distended belly . |
| 22 | There was blood pouring down his face from a head wound , he had slipped from his sitting position and was now lying on his side , his knees drawn up . |
| 23 | He could not walk erect , and invariably crouched on his heels with his knees drawn up to his chin , and he existed on meal pottage fed to him by a spoon by his mother . |
| 24 | Keep your knees drawn up and fold your arms across your chest . |
| 25 | She placed the pot between her legs , knees drawn up , then pulled her skirts down carefully and her cloak on top of it all . |
| 26 | Ruth sat hunched , knees drawn up under her chin , and waited . |
| 27 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 28 | Under Clare 's glare , the frightened girl had shrunk against the headboard , her knees drawn up to hide her slim , naked body . |
| 29 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 30 | I felt myself shrivelling up inside , knees drawn up under my chin , arms wrapped tight around them , my head buried in my arms . |