Example sentences of "[noun] cut [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 2 | ‘ One was a good deal cut up by the war , ’ she answered . |
| 3 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |
| 4 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 5 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 7 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 9 | Sebastian cut off in the glory and promise of his youth , with all the world before him . |
| 10 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 13 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 14 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 15 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 16 | A subsidised dog neutering scheme is being extended in South Tyneside to cut down on the number of stray dogs . |
| 17 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 18 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 19 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 20 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 21 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 25 | A river of golden water surrounded it , flowing between banks cut out of the stone , crossed by four bridges . |
| 26 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 27 | In fact erm there are now , you could say , too many teachers in the system overall , and that 's why there are new proposals erm both in the colleges and in the universities to cut back on the number of teachers that are being trained . |
| 28 | He had to will the rending of his divine nature from his human nature , and die a man alone — the human Jesus cut off from the Father ; the Son denied the sustaining power of the Spirit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |