Example sentences of "[verb] cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you fit it , the sump will need cutting at the front and deepening at the rear to maintain capacity . |
| 2 | This discussion has cut across the boundaries of economics , geography and sociology . |
| 3 | It might turn out that Occam 's Razor has cut off a part or two that will be missed later on … |
| 4 | The drainage channel has cut into the millstone grit to form a series of pools , boulder-chokes , staircases and several cascades and rocky steps — one of which is particularly steep and offers excellent scrambling on rough , textured gritstone ; a damp cleft on the left offers a let-out . |
| 5 | On the far side , where Andy is heading , the bank is tall and steep where the water has cut into the hill , removing sand and gravel and stones and leaving an overhang of earth and exposed , dangling tree-roots ; the dark gravel space under that ragged overhang is the only place I can see where there is no snow . |
| 6 | ILR has cut into the audience for network radio , and the new national commercial stations will reduce it further . |
| 7 | We all share the view that local authority services should be provided by highly motivated , highly trained professional staff but local authorities have had their budgets cut from central government over the last thirteen years which has restricted the amount of finance available for training and has cut to the bone the finance available to provide efficient and effective services to the consumer . |
| 8 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 9 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 10 | If it 's flush and you 're flush mounting the new one , unscrew it and prise it out of the wall ( you may need to cut through the plaster first with an old knife to help free it ) . |
| 11 | It will need to cut through the rhetoric and irrelevance that have cluttered the debate so far . |
| 12 | However , you may need to cut around the stalk and then twist , to hull some strawberries that are less ripe . |
| 13 | The Royal Navy moved to cut off the raiders , but fog allowed them to slip past . |
| 14 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 15 | For one thing , it tends to cut across the distinctions between narrative categories established in this section . |
| 16 | These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands . |
| 17 | The electrical equipment overheats and then fuse as yo we all know should blow to cut off the supply of electrical equipment to that piece of apparatus . |
| 18 | It entails cutting into the flue at strategic points , inserting the liners , end-joining them , and packing them around with mortar . |
| 19 | James R. Nicolson in " Traditional Life in Shetland " says that curious cup-shaped hollows are found cut into the surface of a flat rock . |
| 20 | Here were many war-time refugees and exiles from every country in europe , with accents you could have cut with a cheese wire . |
| 21 | It is doubtful whether even one of the eight twelves ' living bullets could have cut through the atmosphere created by the Doctor 's words . |
| 22 | He had arrived by bus , now he decided to cut across the Heath , through Greenwich Park and to Rose 's flat . |
| 23 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 24 | My unease at having to cut into the glass , at having to add to the glass , he wrote . |
| 25 | By threatening to cut off the bank 's loans , he forced his cousins to turn the company 's management over to professionals . |
| 26 | They can be installed by taking out one layer of bricks ( so you 'll have to cut through a wall — make sure it 's suitable ! ) ; or they can be installed in a corner , or in an alcove , with a surrounded flat fascia , in which case you 'll need to build a timber framework to support the niche and hold the fascia . |
| 27 | He got cut on the hand . |
| 28 | ‘ Daak , try cutting into the ceiling further along . |
| 29 | He still had thick black unruly hair , which he now wore cut in a DA . |
| 30 | With a steel rule held firmly in position to guide a heavy-duty craft knife which is held at an angle , make a clean , bevelled cut between the pin holes to create the window . |