Example sentences of "[noun] cut [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grant and Larsen would be the first to go into action , their mission to break into the house itself , having penetrated the enemy territory via a gap cut in the fence . |
| 2 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 3 | Their markets were small and concessions were rated by combining the size of the proposed tariff cut with the size of the market . |
| 4 | Instead , she sent him the letter made of words cut from a newspaper . |
| 5 | ‘ Next there was the letter made of words cut from a newspaper . |
| 6 | A few did succeed in reaching the border , however , and on Aug. 13 at least 15 dissidents cut through a barbed wire fence only to be arrested as they rushed towards the Demilitarized Zone which divided the two Korean states . |
| 7 | The head is glued and dowel pegged to the neck , using the cramping noggin on the neck and the waste piece cut from the front of the head to facilitate positioning the cramps . |
| 8 | A bicycle came into sight on the main road , and the rubber honk of its brakes cut through the air as the postman slowed and dismounted . |
| 9 | Moreover , by curbing the worst excesses of capitalism , concessions cut into the grievances of the working class so turning them away from action for fundamental transformation . |
| 10 | The cool , tormenting mockery cut through the lingering haze of heat , sending ice into her veins . |
| 11 | Earlier this month , a pregnant mare was killed and mutilated in fields near St Austell , Cornwall , and 16 colts had their manes and tails cut in an attack near Weymouth , Dorset . |
| 12 | Inside you cross a simple , slatted bridge of English beech ; two curved struts cut on a bandsaw , with slats of 1½″ timber . |
| 13 | She was wearing a red velvet skirt cut like a skating skirt , with an alderman 's neck chain slung round her hips and clanking between her legs . |
| 14 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 15 | On the very corner of the island , looking south towards Africa , we rested in a square cell cut into the rock . |
| 16 | He 'd never thought that you could shiver in a desert , but it was late afternoon and the sun had fallen behind the hills and a chill wind cut across the graves . |
| 17 | Hannele and Edward were handed off , and entered the opulent interior through a doorway cut in the yacht 's side . |
| 18 | We are now beginning to see that the beatitudes are like steps cut into a mountain . |
| 19 | The oldest mechanical conservation measure is the bench terrace which consists of a series of steps cut into the slope on the contour , of which the forward edge can be lined with stone or planted with bushes , trees or grasses . |
| 20 | Steps cut into the patio or terrace are not difficult to construct if the ground is firm , as it will only be necessary to cut the step shape into the hard earth . |
| 21 | On the hillside below the buildings stood the ruin of an ancient moss-covered stupa , its squat , heavy base chipped and crumbling , the steps cut into the face cracked , broken in places . |
| 22 | White stones marked the path through the yew trees and in the steep places there were steps cut in the earth and shored up with wood . |
| 23 | Then she turned and began to climb steps cut in the rock . |
| 24 | There was a pathway , steps cut in the cliff . |
| 25 | Bush promised that " the time for just pure study is over " and announced the restoration of a US$5,000 million clean coal programme cut by the administration of former US President Ronald Reagan . |
| 26 | The open left issues from the wraps at waist-level , close vertical folds hanging from the wrist , while over the rest the stuff lies in broad , smooth areas cut by a few sharp folds determined by the left knee . |
| 27 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 28 | Crudely put , it directed the young male of the species to ‘ get as much as he could ’ before marriage cut off every tap but one . |
| 29 | Natural curls cut into a bob , swept back for evening . |
| 30 | The headlights cut into the growing murk . |