Example sentences of "[noun sg] cut [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 2 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 3 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 4 | It was indeed a performance to get your hair cut there as the two elderly unmarried brothers quite unwittingly put on a music hall act . |
| 5 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 6 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 7 | Swietenia macrophylla and Carapa guianensis cut close to the high water mark and floated downstream on the rising waters . |
| 8 | In a bwlch or mountain pass the road cut deeply at the highest place straight through the ridge to show as a notch afar off . |
| 9 | The tomb chamber is a relatively small square chamber cut out of the living rock of the Gypsades hillside . |
| 10 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 11 | Here a thick series of alluvial deposits rests in a basin cut largely in the Upper Jurassic clay formations , the Oxford , Ampthill and Kimeridge Clays . |