Example sentences of "cut through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the instrument is to be resonant the apparently solid finger board needs to be hollowed out from underneath , leaving about 6mm of wood top and sides and openings cut through the soundboard ( face ) to link this space to the interior of the instrument . |
| 2 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 3 | Why not , then , take the hint and cut through the sceptical problems the arguments invite , boldly saying that if all we know are ideas , then ideas are all there are ? |
| 4 | Still cutting from behind , cut through the top fabric . |
| 5 | So a glazed atrium was cut through the five floors to allow in extra light and to open up visual links between different departments . |
| 6 | Maya cut through the breakers into the line-up and then steered towards Sunset . |
| 7 | Having liaised with the National Trust , Anthony Daykin was able to reassure residents that wider firebreak swathes were being cut through the common . |
| 8 | When this latter batch was modernised in 1936 , a centre gangway was cut through the benches to make life easier for the conductor . |
| 9 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 10 | The usual roll can be likened to the surface activity of a porpoise ; a smooth , slicing motion , where the top of the head , then the humped back , and finally the tip of the caudal fin , cut through the water with considerable elegance and beauty . |
| 11 | The densest high forest in the High Weald is associated with the ghyll valleys , narrow ravines created by streams that have cut through the lighter soils . |
| 12 | Like a surgeon 's scalpel the river we were following had cut through the thin skin of soil and sediments to expose the underlying pillow lavas . |
| 13 | Before I could answer , a shrill peal of laughter cut through the air like fingernails dragged down a blackboard . |
| 14 | Through the heavy curtains , a shaft of sunlight cut through the gloom . |
| 15 | Beyond her , further out , a motor launch cut through the water . |
| 16 | Deftly he dissected each cranial nerve as it appeared , cut through the detaining tentorium then reached down low beyond the foramen magnum to divide the spinal cord . |
| 17 | Each of the six songs aired tonight moves through repetitive , bass-heavy passages , seductive segments in which Linda steers the band into more melodic territory and shocking moments when power chords suddenly cut through the mesmeric grooves and things take on an atmosphere of nervy unpredictability . |
| 18 | Blazer 's forelegs cut through the air almost with grace as if he were swimming . |
| 19 | And now , her face straight , her lips seeming to quiver , she went into the song ; and so beautiful was her rendering of it , so touching the cadences , so tender with longing the words , that she seemed transformed before their eyes : she was no longer Lemon , good for a joke or a bit of ribbing , for her voice cut through the façade of brashness , of insensitivity and coarseness that seems to become necessary to men in war . |
| 20 | Policewoman Tanya Cook said : ‘ Somebody cut through the padlock to the kennels in the middle of the night . |
| 21 | Typically , at the end of an experiment the animals are killed , their brains removed and thin sections cut through the lesion sites . |
| 22 | The motorbike was left chained to a tree in a front garden , but thieves cut through the chain . |
| 23 | A section was cut through the best preserved length of defences ( fig. 12.2 ) , and work on the villa was extended . |
| 24 | A deep path cut through the lush and noisy vegetation . |
| 25 | Boats and windsurfers cut through the ripples , children laugh in the shallows and many a head turning tan has been collected on the beaches . |
| 26 | Then another voice cut through the shrilling , raw and shaken — ’ Father ! ’ |
| 27 | Beetles , landing on one , immediately cut through the mid-rib . |
| 28 | It starts to get rockier too , as you soon realize driving along the valley road past Bid array , which has been cut through the often quite garish sandstone . |
| 29 | All these lines of communication cut through the ridge-and-furrow of the open fields of the villages as does the wandering line of the original Oxford Canal to the south-east and west . |
| 30 | Using a technique pioneered in America , where drop-in surgery is commonplace , Waters made a three-inch incision , cut through the layers of ‘ padding ’ , pushed back the hernia sack , and then tucked in a 2½ inch by 1 ¼ inch piece of polypropylene mesh to reinforce the muscle wall . |