Example sentences of "[was/were] drawn [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 2 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 3 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 4 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 5 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 6 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 7 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 8 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 9 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 10 | Its original boundaries were drawn up without the benefit of any systematic survey ; no LFA land was de-designated when the UK LFA was substantially extended early in 1984 to include the so-called marginal land . |
| 11 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
| 12 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 13 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 14 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 15 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 16 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 17 | As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock . |
| 18 | Her eyes were drawn back to the set , where Dane was still holding court . |
| 19 | The curtains were drawn back to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy . |
| 20 | On 10 November 1921 , a new agreement was drawn up between the Company and Croydon Corporation for maintenance of track within the Borough and to permit the construction of a curve at the top of Tamworth Road , only to be used for the transfer of cars . |
| 21 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 22 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 23 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 24 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 25 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 26 | The Statement of principles and Objectives of the Federation was drawn up at the conference and signed by all the organizations present at the conference ( see Annex ) . |
| 27 | It was a comparatively fine day , and a table was drawn up to the window . |
| 28 | Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity . |
| 29 | Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites . |
| 30 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |