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

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1 Otherwise , chopsticks are practical for one-handed eating , if the food is cut up for the patient .
2 " 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 . "
3 It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations .
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