Example sentences of "[was/were] cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We realised we were cutting through a bit of red tape but everything seemed to be in the baby 's best interests . ’ |
| 2 | More than a century ago tunnels and galleries were cut into the cliffs here by the engineers who constructed the Axenstrasse road which enabled vehicular traffic to pass along the lakeside towards the Gotthard and obviate the need for lake transhipments . |
| 3 | Two pieces of 2″ × 2″ wood were cut to the length of the vat , painted with wood preserver and then screwed to the top of each side of the vat using self-tapping screws . |
| 4 | A raid on the adjoining rugby club meant that the phone lines at the University ground were cut for a day . |
| 5 | Sections were cut on a microtome and stained with haematoxylin and eosin to show the nucleii and cytoplasm of cells within the xenografts . |
| 6 | Care had to be taken in fitting the cotter-pins securing the grips , and grooves were cut on the inside of the coffin into which the cotter-pins were bent , so as not to come into contact with the lead shell . |
| 7 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 8 | Dandy , a ten year old gelding who 's competed at the Royal International Horse Show , and his grazing companion Lady were cut with a knife as they stood in their field at Hampton Poyle near Kidlington in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | The mortice joints were cut with the router using a template which located in the housing , I then assembled the bottom frame dry using home-made cramps . |
| 10 | … and ribber These two little words were cut off a sentence at the bottom of the page in Liz 's October article , thereby changing its meaning . |
| 11 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 12 | Five micron serial sections were cut from the tissue blocks and placed on 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane coated slides . |
| 13 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 14 | He wore white Mughal pyjamas whose trouser-bottoms , wide and slightly flared , were cut in the style once favoured by eighteenth-century Delhi gallants . |
| 15 | Maximum tax rates were cut in the mining sector and in certain parts of the petroleum sectors , and an annual inflationary adjustment mechanism was established for corporations . |
| 16 | Holes were cut in the ends of the filter tank , one at the top the other at the bottom and 1½inch tank connectors were siliconed in place . |
| 17 | They were to cut at the roots . |
| 18 | It was of a harbour on a rough and windy day , which some small sailing ships were trying to enter with , it appeared to Ellie , no little difficulty , while behind them a steamer was cutting through the seas at great speed . |
| 19 | Men were bellowing fortissimo women screaming in order to be heard but Charity 's voice was cutting through the uproar effortlessly . |
| 20 | He saw this society as increasingly menaced by industrialization which , particularly in the cities , where power was now centralized , was cutting off the population from its roots . |
| 21 | Fabia was cutting into a slice of cheese when suddenly she halted . |
| 22 | In the later Empire Christians took vengeance upon the representatives of pagan authority by mutilating a bust 33 of Germanicus Caesar , in his day one of the most popular members of Augustus ' family : the nose was sliced off and a cross was cut into the forehead . |
| 23 | Although Canada won gold in the 1984 Olympics , government funding was cut following the Ben Johnson drugs scandal in Seoul and the country won no medals at this year 's world championships . |
| 24 | The large drain was cut following an Act of Enclosure in 1791 . |
| 25 | But when I cut the roads it was cut with a finger mower . |
| 26 | The representation of the urban population ( especially the working class ) , the peasantry and the national minorities was cut to a fraction . |
| 27 | One of Mr Smith 's fingers was cut to the bone in the attack , which was prompted by a row over a noisy motorcycle , it was heard . |
| 28 | She was cut to the quick by the accusation . |
| 29 | A section 55 ft long was cut across the rampart , and the tessellated pavement of the villa corridor was excavated , together with a small but complete building attached to it . |
| 30 | Lane 15 was cut off the gel before fluorography and instead stained with Coomassie Blue . |