Example sentences of "[noun] be cut [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities .
2 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 ) .
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 In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support .
5 They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure .
6 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 .
7 That openness to liberated desire is cut off in the films which the Boxes produce .
8 Copper engraving or etching is not a relief process , but an intaglio one ; what is to print black is cut down below the surface , and the copper is wiped before printing .
9 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 .
10 However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) .
11 ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest .
12 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 ’ .
13 His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder .
14 Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards .
15 " how terribly the work of the Sixth Form is cut up during the year by the three mornings and one afternoon per week that our boys spend in attending Dr. Roscoe 's Chymistry , [ sic ] classes in Manchester . "
16 Cancellation is the least favoured option : once a project is cut out of the Long-Term Costing , it is rarely possible to argue it back in again .
17 Otherwise , chopsticks are practical for one-handed eating , if the food is cut up for the patient .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 THIS NEWSPAPER PHOTO WAS CUT OFF UNDER THE CHIN FOR SECURITY REASONS , SO THAT THE BRASS PATHFINDER BROOCH WAS NOT SHOWN .
21 Some boys are cut off by the tide ! "
22 The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s .
23 For specific shapes such as a rectangle or semi-circle , where the shape is cut out to the exact dimensions required , card could be used .
24 Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death .
25 One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea .
26 But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier .
27 As elsewhere some of the pauses between movements sound artificially curtailed ; ditto the resonance of the final notes , which as throughout the set is cut off before the applause .
28 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 .
29 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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