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

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1 She was wearing a linen suit the colour of pale watercress soup , with the skirt cut just above the knee .
2 ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman .
3 It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 Always ask for a slice cut freshly from the salame and do not expect to get the true flavour from a pre-cut chunk on a plate .
7 The train immediately entered the tunnel — a tunnel cut just beneath the surface , of course , not the deep tube .
8 Having laid the foundations , you simply cover them with a layer of sand about 50mm deep , and level this off , using a straight-edge cut out at the ends to just under the depth of the bricks , say about 90mm .
9 A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself .
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 As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates .
12 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 .
13 The other finger-ring key on the right of the photograph has a slot cut out of the bit , with notches on the end .
14 I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade .
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