Example sentences of "[was/were] cut [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 2am on Friday , opinion pollsters , who led everyone to take their eyes off the ball , were cut down to size and shown up for what they are : a waster of money |
| 2 | Hundreds of bullets were let loose — followed by tear-gas and even mortar shells — as protesters were cut down without mercy . |
| 3 | Thousands of High Elves were cut down by crossbow fire as they waded ashore . |
| 4 | We lost a third of the workforce in my industry , mainly in unskilled and semi-skilled posts , many companies went bust and others were cut down in size dramatically . |
| 5 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 6 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 7 | Boss William Courtney says many more people were cut off for non-payment , but the shares added 2p to 455p . |
| 8 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
| 9 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |
| 10 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 11 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 12 | As we closed the shelter of Lewis we lost the wind and the swell was cut off like magic . |
| 13 | The 54-year-old monster , which towered over the garden , was cut down on television by professional contractors , who safely lowered its limbs one be one . |
| 14 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 15 | But then one of their number was cut down by musket fire , to which they could not reply , for , clinging to the side , they had no hands free . |
| 16 | His sidekick froze , and was cut down by fire from all quarters . |