Example sentences of "cut [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are cut right to the bone . ’ |
| 2 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 3 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 4 | The proposed dual carriageway would have cut right across the edge of the meadow ; common land for centuries and a favourite spot for walkers . |
| 5 | This venture was short-lived , as the Regent 's canal was cut right through the middle of the pitch . |
| 6 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 7 | The front pushes wide on a steady throttle and the rears will only slide out if the power is cut suddenly on the faster curves . |
| 8 | It is difficult to imagine that vertical sea cliffs 60 m ( 200 ft ) high , such as those at Hartland Point in Devon , have been cut entirely in the short Post-glacial period since the sea rose to its present level . |
| 9 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 10 | It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too . |
| 11 | As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary . |
| 12 | Thousands of young volunteers , who had abandoned civilian safety to enlist in Kitchener 's great New Army , were cut down at the Somme , and their comrades disillusioned . |
| 13 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 14 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 15 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 16 | Copper engraving or etching is not a relief process , but an intaglio one ; what is to print black is cut down below the surface , and the copper is wiped before printing . |
| 17 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 18 | Heavy-eyed , yawning and bewildered men appeared in doorways , and were promptly cut down by the attackers . |
| 19 | As the plaster dust settled , dazed guards emerged from the interior of the palace , only to be cut down by the machete-wielding cacos who had brought their knowledge of the palace to the rebels . |
| 20 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 21 | Moscow 's last remaining forest , in the Losinskii Ostrov National Park , is being cut down by the city 's hungry , who are using the land for illegal potato growing . |
| 22 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 23 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |
| 24 | The actual implementation process which enabled the Bank to successfully cut over from the Old IBM 3090–600J to the new machine was recalled by Alan Knight , Manager , Capacity and Performance , Services Delivery , Technology . |
| 25 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 26 | A very fine example is provided by the natural arch in limestone on the river Ardèche in the Cevennes to the west of the Lower Rhône valley ( Plate 36 ) : this approximates to what one would expect if a meander of the type shown in Fig. 9. 12A had been cut through at the neck . |
| 27 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 28 | She was wearing a linen suit the colour of pale watercress soup , with the skirt cut just above the knee . |
| 29 | There was one cut just above the ankle ; it had bled only slightly . |
| 30 | P8 ( a , b ) rats or P12 ( c ) mice were anaesthetized with ether and the right optic nerve was cut just behind the eyeball . |