Example sentences of "[was/were] cut [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 2 | Despite the county council efforts , several towns and villages , including Tow Law , Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale , were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 3 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 4 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 5 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 6 | ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest . |
| 7 | One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea . |
| 8 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 9 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |