Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The cool , tormenting mockery cut through the lingering haze of heat , sending ice into her veins . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the very corner of the island , looking south towards Africa , we rested in a square cell cut into the rock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hannele and Edward were handed off , and entered the opulent interior through a doorway cut in the yacht 's side . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of two methods is generally applied : the ‘ illustrative cut ’ of individual projects and commitments , or the percentage cut across the board . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wind-borne grit and ice erode antarctic basalt boulders at a rate of 1.5mm per year ( Evteev , 1964 ) , producing pavements of consolidated rock rubble with each fragment cut to a tricorn and wind-polished ( Nichols , 1966 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 2–2½ lb Cox or other sharp but sweet dessert apples 1½ tbsp lemon juice and the zest of 1½ lemons 1 dozen or more thin slices of bread cut from a crusty French loaf or bloomer butter , golden syrup and demerara sugar |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Above in the night sky , seen through a greasy window cut with the smeared flare of car lights , a plane blinks . |
| 19 | Fill large gaps between boards with strips of wood cut to a wedge-shape . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the emotional fracture cut through every aspect of his adulthood . |
| 22 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 23 | I looked up and saw again the arrow cut into the tree . |
| 24 | Before I could answer , a shrill peal of laughter cut through the air like fingernails dragged down a blackboard . |
| 25 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 26 | Pastrami cut from a very regular block will probably not be made from brisket of beef , so the odder the shape , the better the meat . |
| 27 | Ariel saw the timehri , a chevron cut by a downward stroke , signifying great peril ; then again , later , after she told Jack Elsey that she could not find the necessary seaweed for a certain panacea on this stretch of the shore , but must go further , she found another rock , with the same fresh cipher . |
| 28 | The moon above the hill cut like a wedge of shadow , |
| 29 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 30 | It was a distinction which he found extremely disturbing , not because of its political consequences , but because the introduction of such a distinction cut at the root of his ideal of obedience . |