Example sentences of "[be] cut [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 2 | Clearly , you have to know about the strengths , tendencies and habits of a plant before we even open the secateurs , or you could be cutting away the best bloom-bearing wood ! |
| 3 | A solution to this can be to cut down the skeg , as this provides the resistance at the back of the board . |
| 4 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 5 | Well when you were cutting up the meat when you , in the shop and things like that , did you wear any special clothes for that ? |
| 6 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 7 | I think the Bishop 's cutting out the |
| 8 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 9 | A KWVR member and computer programmer has designed a sophisticated program that is cutting significantly the time taken to process bookings . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | Cutting the flutes is a longer process than making the sphere , each flute is cut then the work rotated by hand to the next stop , and the next flute cut . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 13 | The correct approach here is to cut down the obligation to perform undertaken under the contract , rather than attempt to impose an exemption clause covering the liability for a breach committed . |
| 14 | The answer here is to cut out the offending piece of pipe and to insert a new piece . |
| 15 | The doctor was cutting away the top part of his khaki trousers , and spoke to him reassuringly . |
| 16 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 17 | As the forest was cut down the elephants , over 100 of them , retreated into a small corner of forest that was left standing along the Suleh river . |
| 18 | The most obvious treatment was to cut out the growth . |