Example sentences of "[vb mod] cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 2 | Very close range , wide beam , or we 'll cut through the fuselage . |
| 3 | He told us they 'd cut off the water supply to the house , and as no one can carry on long without water , he thinks they 'll surrender quite soon . |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 5 | ( If only Lawrence was here , I thought , he 'd cut through the crap . |
| 6 | Anyway , what happened do you see , the ones that he 'd cut in the beginning , when he bought the place . |
| 7 | It had to do something , because uncertainty had to be brought to an end ; but only enlightened bureaucrats at the centre could cut through the diversity of opinion in the provinces . |
| 8 | Conversely I discovered that it could cut with the disc flat , or at a slight angle , and I can see it having benefits for very fine work . |
| 9 | The danger here is that this ballooning could cut off the emergency cooling water altogether . |
| 10 | If the next sequence is to be ‘ Letters to Santa ’ , in fact , you could cut from a repeat of the original close-up of the Santa 's head to a close-up of a letter already headed ‘ Dear Santa ’ … |
| 11 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 12 | The death squad published a statement claiming they would cut off the head of every Committee member . |
| 13 | First , the reduction of the ground-floor level so that five storeys could be accommodated satisfactorily in the building height meant that the new first floor would cut across the aisle windows if they were left unmodified . |
| 14 | O M two , subsequently to become the blue route , offers a less damaging solution than O M one which would cut through the heart of the Nidd Gorge , creating a major environmental conflict . |
| 15 | Every now and again the music would cut for a couple of seconds and there would be some faint , whispered phrase that would haunt its way down the wire , but she could n't make out what was said . |
| 16 | Will cut over the edge of a lawn and the low-profile enables them to cut under low shrub branches . |
| 17 | The rasps are useful for preliminary shaping prior to fine-finishing , and will cut across the grain of timber without tearing it . |
| 18 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 19 | Do n't tread around bushes to firm them , this will cut off the oxygen supply to the roots . |
| 20 | The saw will cut off the tongue of one board so that you can use a wide wood chisel , or a bolster chisel , to lever up a board from the side . |
| 21 | This will guard the installation against the risk of an electrical fire caused by current leaking to earth , and will cut off the power in the event of anyone touching something live when they should n't . |
| 22 | A pipe-freezing kit makes two plugs of ice either side of the joint so that you can cut through the pipes . |
| 23 | Basically , they grew out of a thought process which was perhaps a little too logical , but logical all the same , relating to works made with your hands : you can cut off the artist 's hands and still end up with something which is a product of the artist 's choice since , on the whole , when an artist paints using a palette he is choosing the colours . |