Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] cut [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE-running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10% polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) . |
| 2 | His eyes were cut off from any outside flow , angry , as if two parts of his mind were fighting . |
| 3 | These were brought back to school and curtains and rugs were cut out of the fabrics for the house , each being labelled as to the fibre , eg wool , cotton , silk , polyester , nylon . |
| 4 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 5 | In the meantime , as predicted , Croydon Corporation terminated the lease and from 1 June , the service provided by their cars was cut back to Selby Road on the South Norwood route . |
| 6 | Syria was cut off from its finest port and Damascus — the centre of the Muslim Arab nationalist movement opposed to French rule — was weakened at the expense of Beirut and the new Christian-dominated regime . |
| 7 | In fact , as it turned out , the great majority of the 300,000 German troops reported by Schmidt-Richberg as approaching Austria on 13 May were cut off from reaching the frontier by Tito 's forces , or were already in the process of surrendering inside Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | Thousands of High Elves were cut down by crossbow fire as they waded ashore . |
| 9 | The village was cut off by floods . |
| 10 | Later the woman 's benefit was cut off on the grounds that she and her lodger were living together as husband and wife , and he must therefore maintain her . |
| 11 | As we closed the shelter of Lewis we lost the wind and the swell was cut off like magic . |
| 12 | Now that Aurelia Road depôt was cut off from live tram track , it was cleared of the cars being scrapped there and closed on 22 November . |
| 13 | The 17% recently recommended by the Top Salaries Review Body to make a start towards catching up with inflation and moving towards parity with comparable jobs in the private sector was cut back to 4% . |
| 14 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 15 | Japanese nationals were cut off from personal contacts with Europeans and the import of foreign artefacts , books and anything which might convey Western knowledge was banned . |
| 16 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 17 | The Wiltshire villages of Lacock and Staverton were cut off by impassable country lanes . |
| 18 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 19 | Some 3,000 electors in a north Queensland constituency were cut off by floods and did not vote until several days after the election . |
| 20 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 21 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 22 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 23 | Her diatribe was cut off by Michael who stormed into the kitchen . |
| 24 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 25 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
| 26 | The large items were cut up by oxy-acetylene torch , and explosive was used to separate some of the steelwork from its foundations . |
| 27 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 28 | On the other hand in part of Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire , the first trees were cut down in October 1856 following an act of parliament . |
| 29 | Boss William Courtney says many more people were cut off for non-payment , but the shares added 2p to 455p . |
| 30 | Hundreds of bullets were let loose — followed by tear-gas and even mortar shells — as protesters were cut down without mercy . |