Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] cut [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest .
6 We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ .
7 His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder .
8 Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards .
9 The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding .
10 The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 .
11 THIS NEWSPAPER PHOTO WAS CUT OFF UNDER THE CHIN FOR SECURITY REASONS , SO THAT THE BRASS PATHFINDER BROOCH WAS NOT SHOWN .
12 The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s .
13 Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death .
14 One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea .
15 But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier .
16 The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 .
17 Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels .
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