Example sentences of "[noun sg] cut [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 2 | But still tariff cuts in the sixties were certainly an important influence on the trade during the period . |
| 3 | The Caledonian Canal cuts through the Great Glen to form a waterway link between Loch Ness at Fort Augustus and Loch Linnhe near Fort William , and in effect cuts off the North-West Highlands from the rest of Scotland . |
| 4 | The seven million pound cuts in the N H S service since the Trust . |
| 5 | Jananne Al-Ani 's Untitled Gulf War Piece cuts through the Orientalist propaganda of that war , and Mitra Tabrizian 's Surveillance makes us question national and social power relations . |
| 6 | Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their markets were small and concessions were rated by combining the size of the proposed tariff cut with the size of the market . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The cool , tormenting mockery cut through the lingering haze of heat , sending ice into her veins . |
| 12 | On the very corner of the island , looking south towards Africa , we rested in a square cell cut into the rock . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hannele and Edward were handed off , and entered the opulent interior through a doorway cut in the yacht 's side . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The scene cuts to the couple having a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 18 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 19 | One of two methods is generally applied : the ‘ illustrative cut ’ of individual projects and commitments , or the percentage cut across the board . |
| 20 | When the winding extends around approximately half of the core cut off the end , leaving a few inches of spare wire and tape the wire down temporarily . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I do like that , ’ Miss Poraway was saying , pointing at a cartoon cut from the WRVS News that someone had stuck with Sellotape to the dashboard of the van . |
| 22 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 23 | Above in the night sky , seen through a greasy window cut with the smeared flare of car lights , a plane blinks . |
| 24 | One surviving base is that from North Luffenham , made of a circular piece of wood cut with the grain , 0.2 cm thick , slotted into a groove at the bottom of the staves ; such a method of fixing is common . |
| 25 | I looked up and saw again the arrow cut into the tree . |
| 26 | Before I could answer , a shrill peal of laughter cut through the air like fingernails dragged down a blackboard . |
| 27 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 28 | Pharmacy was chosen for review because university cuts in the subject , announced by the UGC in 1981 , were made on the grounds that courses were available in the public sector , and because the UGC has recently established a panel on subjects allied in medicine , including pharmacy , with which NAB 's working group can consult and co-ordinate some measure of trans-binary planning . |
| 29 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 30 | The plan was leaked to the New York Times yesterday , in time for the strategy hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee , and the hearings on possible defence cuts before the Senate Budget Committee . |