Example sentences of "be cut [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog food comes in frozen slabs that must be cut up with a felling axe . |
| 2 | Mr Knapp said trainmakers Brel , anxiously waiting for an order for 188 new Networker trains , could not survive BR 's privatisation when investment in new stock would be cut back to a minimum . |
| 3 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
| 4 | The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted , or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made , just as with the 2-DG experiment . |
| 5 | THE 43 police forces in England and Wales should be cut by about a half , one of the country 's most senior officers said yesterday . |
| 6 | On a visit to Northern Ireland , he was brash enough to taunt the region that it was a burden on the Westminster exchequer and could be cut off without a penny . |
| 7 | However , television is such a major part of people 's lives that simple human interaction has been cut down to a minimum . |
| 8 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 9 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |
| 10 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 11 | If a strip of the tissue that has yet to segment into somites is cut out of a chick embryo , turned through 180 degrees and replaced , the somite formation proceeds normally up to the site of the graft , but will then continue from the rear edge of the inverted piece , the sequence now going in a direction opposite from normal until the operated piece is fully segmented , and will then continue normally , again from the rear edge . |
| 12 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |
| 13 | And two weeks ago , one of our colony supply ships managed to broadcast a more reliable report — until transmission was cut off by a boarding party . |
| 14 | The horseman was , in fact , one of Miles ' Cheyenne scouts , and Looking Glass was cut down by a sharpshooter 's bullet ; the only warrior to die after the opening battle . |
| 15 | Joseph 's lodge was at the north of the camp , and one of his wives was cut down by a bullet while carrying her daughter to safety . |
| 16 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |