Example sentences of "cut off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scrape the soil away from the plant to expose some of its larger roots and cut off a few of these with a sharp knife . |
| 2 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 3 | Testing machines now exist which have vice-like grips , called ‘ friction grips ’ , so that one can take an ordinary bar of metal , cut off a short length , and break it in tension . |
| 4 | There 's usually a fair amount of hash around , I 'm told , mainly distributed , as elsewhere , by people whose profit consists of a ten-spot , cut off a quarter , for themselves . |
| 5 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 6 | One of them showed a pair of slim , naked legs , cut off a fraction of a millimetre below the groin , running through a meadow full of dewy grass and pale blue cornflowers . |
| 7 | Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem . |
| 8 | Get some syphon tubing from a shop that sells home-brewing equipment and cut off a manageable length . |
| 9 | Although advances such as secondary high-limit thermostats , which cut off the power if the fryer overheats , are now fitted as standard on almost all machines , there have been plenty of other developments . |
| 10 | Cut off the top growth of catmint , but leave the pruning of caryopteris and fuchsias until new growth appears . |
| 11 | Cut off the water supply to the tap to be converted , then unscrew the retaining screw holding the tap handle . |
| 12 | Cut off the remaining loose ends . |
| 13 | Cut off the base if they have started to rot and then store in a dry place for next year . |
| 14 | Police alerted electricity staff , who cut off the deadly high-voltage supply following the accident at the Lancaster Canal , five miles north of Preston , Lancs . |
| 15 | There 's no way that we can guarantee success , but it should be helpful to follow this technique : cut off the water supply to the basin , and disconnect the tails of the taps from the water supply pipes . |
| 16 | Cut off the top quarter of the bottle so that it forms a sort of funnel . |
| 17 | To re-seal a half-used cartridge , take the piece you cut off the end of the nozzle and push it into the nozzle the other way round |
| 18 | Cut off the bottom of the stem and look at the freshly cut end . |
| 19 | Cut off the selvedges completely to remove the tension along these tight edges . |
| 20 | They cut off the electricity last week . |
| 21 | He found that from the intersection of Fleming 's Cross-cut with the vein , the level had been taken S.E. along it for 40 fathoms , at the forehead of which was a cross-course which cut off the lode . |
| 22 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 23 | ‘ You cut off the air and starve the atmosphere of oxygen . |
| 24 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 26 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 27 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 28 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 29 | Physical violence , you cut off an arm , an arm 's dead . |
| 30 | In a series of lunges he cut off a sector of north Vietnam and isolated much of Laos . |