Example sentences of "[adv] cut [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 2 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 3 | The rhinoceros hornbill — which , like most hornbills , prefers the same type of trees that loggers prefer — is having its world literally cut out from under it . |
| 4 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 5 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 6 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 8 | On the village green stood black life-size silhouette figures of fiddle and accordion players , apparently cut out from thin sheets of iron . |
| 9 | She 's been terribly cut up about her brother . |
| 10 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 11 | My inaugural story was eagerly cut out of the paper on the Friday morning . |
| 12 | Jack 's been so cut up about poor Charlie . |
| 13 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 14 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 15 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |
| 16 | They avoid making enemies , and so cut down on threats to themselves in the office jungle . |
| 17 | Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 per cent of fuel , and so cut back on carbon dioxide . |
| 18 | And sometimes it 's quite difficult I think to get away from middle persons because that is it 's part of the structure of the c the country you 're dealing with and so to cut down on exploitation from the mi but as to how far you can actually impose your , your culture as well . |
| 19 | ( It is not necessary to avoid butter completely because of the connection between high levels of cholesterol and heart disease , but merely to cut down on it . ) |
| 20 | It was because of these expectations about planning that members of the RTO felt they could comfortably cut down on DHA estimates of the revenue required for community services . |
| 21 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 22 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |
| 23 | There are only so many ways to describe a pitch and there is very little need to alter descriptions if the existing ones work perfectly well , thus cutting down on the number of major rewrites required . |
| 24 | Be best cut out with a sharp knife that something like a Stanley knife |
| 25 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 26 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 27 | So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks . |
| 28 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 29 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 30 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |