Sentence examples for which has been drained from inspiring English sources

In India at least, the lure of the industrial and the artificial can still be found in neglected places such as Kolkata's New Market, which has been drained of many of its middle-class customers by suburban, air-conditioned shopping malls.

BP 's stock, which has been drained of about half its value since the crisis in the Gulf began, made its way into positive territory during midday trading Wednesday, before falling 1.9%, or 60 cents, to $30.80.

Astley and Bedford Mosses is one of the last surviving fragments of Chat Moss, most of which has been drained for agriculture or lost through peat removal.

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The relief of the plains is undulating but low, and natural drainage is inadequate in many places, creating swamps, some of which have been drained.

Pacquiao wore a bandage over his right ear, which had been drained, a fedora and the smile of a man who had just made at least $13 million and won his seventh title.

As well as pressure from the historic loss of East Anglian fens, many of which have been drained and converted to farmland, British dragonflies and their prey are at risk from insecticides and pesticides.

It said Mr Mandela had developed a pleural effusion - excess fluid in the lungs which had been drained to enable him to breathe more easily.

I disagree: Oates's writing is so incisive, so beautifully revealing of what it means to "inhabit a free-fall world from which meaning has been drained", that it is difficult to open this book without crying.

"Though I do think that meat from which the blood has been drained, as in halal, is tastier," he said.

The sculpture, reminiscent of a Joseph Cornell box from which the color has been drained, is a vision at once Utopian and pragmatic.