Example sentences of "[prep] cut [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling .
2 The extent of heteroplasmy was evaluated by Southern blotting on total DNA obtained from adult flies ( 1–7 days ) after cutting with the Msp1 enzyme and hybridization with the CO III probe ( Figure 2 ) .
3 On 19 August , the Second Army , under General Aleksandr Samsonov , was ordered to advance toward Danzig ( Gdansk ) , with the idea of cutting off the German forces from the River Vistula .
4 The first clash of arms in the campaign came on 23 August , when Salza 's Fourth Army , moving southward in expectation of cutting off the rear of the Austrians — who he deemed to be driving east — ran into Dankl 's advancing First Army at Krasnik .
5 Will my right hon. Friend have a word with our right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary about utilising the British information services to maximum effect , especially in north America , in the hope of cutting off the supply of money , sympathy and support for the sort of depraved attack that occurred on Saturday , and to show IRA sympathisers in America precisely what is happening ?
6 Like cutting into the surface of a pond , I thought , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , like pressing paint onto the surface of a pond , with total concentration and total folly .
7 More teeth give a cleaner cut , and are better for cutting across the grain if a really smooth finish is required .
8 Thanks are due to Andrew Lane ( Letters , 1 April ) for cutting through the confused signals about identifying and recording unmet need .
9 All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First .
10 The answer to the problem of the jump-cut , then , is to ‘ lift ’ one or more of the onlooker close-ups out of context for cutting into the preparation sequence just before the shot of the moving boat .
11 I waited to get my breath before cutting across the road .
12 Before cutting into the wood make a few pencil guidelines , to indicate the position of the cheeks , nostrils etc … ( fig.2 ) , and a centreline ( which will help you to keep the symmetry ) and the shapes of the ears .
13 On the way the route passes through the town of North Walsham and follows a section of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal before cutting over the Stalham .
14 They are being used by multinationals and cartels to prevent us and other Third World nations from cutting into the developed world 's profits . ’
15 The largest pair of Stillsons may shift the nuts , but you may have to resort to cutting through the pipes .
16 Providing that the castration is restricted to cutting off the testicles alone ( sometimes the whole kit would go ) , it is possible for a man 's libido and ability to indulge in intercourse not to be reduced at all .
17 Using a scalpel , cut off the surplus Transpaseal , without cutting through the base acetate .
18 Meredith , with a surge of embarrassment , jerked her curtains across cutting off the sight .
19 It is often possible to restrict these by cutting into the ground with a spade along the face of the hedge , doing one side at a time in alternate years .
20 Once broken , they can only be removed by cutting through the fingerboard , a painful and delicate process which I for one would not want to see .
21 A man with a long knife cut the dolphins ' skins and fat from the bodies , by cutting across the dolphin 's head , slicing it down the middle , then peeling off the outer layer .
22 Some seedsmen packet small seeds in specially designed plastic tubes that make it easier to sow finely simply by cutting off the end and tapping out the seeds .
23 Make sure the next generation has straight hair by cutting off the crusts .
24 Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass .
25 Potentially damaging foreign influences were minimized after 1640 by cutting off the country from virtually all contact with the outside world .
26 Prune by cutting off the old flowered growth immediately after flowering , when it will produce good new shoots .
27 ‘ It is a matter for ICSTIS ( the premium rate regulator ) and Oftel to regulate and we would respond immediately to any complaint about the misuse of videophones by cutting off the line , ’ a BT spokesman said .
28 Probes in lanes 1,2,3 and 4 ( which include site U ) were derived from the plasmid pBENDU by cutting with the relevant enzymes indicated above each lane .
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