Example sentences of "[noun pl] cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where steps cut through a lawn , a straight edging will be needed to the flight to make mowing easier |
| 2 | Instead , she sent him the letter made of words cut from a newspaper . |
| 3 | ‘ Next there was the letter made of words cut from a newspaper . |
| 4 | A bicycle came into sight on the main road , and the rubber honk of its brakes cut through the air as the postman slowed and dismounted . |
| 5 | Moreover , by curbing the worst excesses of capitalism , concessions cut into the grievances of the working class so turning them away from action for fundamental transformation . |
| 6 | Earlier this month , a pregnant mare was killed and mutilated in fields near St Austell , Cornwall , and 16 colts had their manes and tails cut in an attack near Weymouth , Dorset . |
| 7 | Inside you cross a simple , slatted bridge of English beech ; two curved struts cut on a bandsaw , with slats of 1½″ timber . |
| 8 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 9 | We are now beginning to see that the beatitudes are like steps cut into a mountain . |
| 10 | Steps cut into the patio or terrace are not difficult to construct if the ground is firm , as it will only be necessary to cut the step shape into the hard earth . |
| 11 | On the hillside below the buildings stood the ruin of an ancient moss-covered stupa , its squat , heavy base chipped and crumbling , the steps cut into the face cracked , broken in places . |
| 12 | The oldest mechanical conservation measure is the bench terrace which consists of a series of steps cut into the slope on the contour , of which the forward edge can be lined with stone or planted with bushes , trees or grasses . |
| 13 | There was a pathway , steps cut in the cliff . |
| 14 | Then she turned and began to climb steps cut in the rock . |
| 15 | White stones marked the path through the yew trees and in the steep places there were steps cut in the earth and shored up with wood . |
| 16 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |
| 17 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 18 | Natural curls cut into a bob , swept back for evening . |
| 19 | Boats and windsurfers cut through the ripples , children laugh in the shallows and many a head turning tan has been collected on the beaches . |
| 20 | On the roof I could see the marks of the picks of long-dead miners cut into the rock as they crouched here in the dark , hacking out the ore with no light other than the dim wicks of the oil lamps or the candles stuck on their helmets . |
| 21 | But then , after all , environmental concerns cut across the competition . |
| 22 | It was still raining , great drops spurted up whirlpools of dust , but the buildings cut off the sand and made it seem lighter . |
| 23 | The girls , who gained international fame as Christina and Caroline in Neighbours , are now recording an album and hope to have one of the tracks cut as a single in time for the pantomime 's launch on December 18 . |
| 24 | Blazer 's forelegs cut through the air almost with grace as if he were swimming . |
| 25 | Bad housing , overcrowding , underfeeding , low wages , for any work that is going , household incomes cut to the limit by public assistance , or Means Test or whatever is the cutting machine of the time … these mean disease and premature death . |
| 26 | The public now has a better chance of listening to treasures such as the massive 40-cm 78-rpm discs cut during the Nuremburg Trials , or the 40 hours of tape recorded during the 0z trial . |
| 27 | The perforations cut into the bolts , can be of circular , square or triangular shape . |
| 28 | The stalks cut across the rim of the bowl . |
| 29 | To put it simply , structures cut by the dykes must be Scourian , whereas structures affecting the dykes must be Laxfordian . |
| 30 | They had lived for a while in holes cut in the turf banks . |