Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 2 | Cut down to the bone to avoid excessive wastage . |
| 3 | We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above . |
| 4 | In order to further speed and cheapen the process , inferior ingredients such as maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch are used and helped on their way by chemicals that hasten fermentation , cut down on the yeast head in the vessels to allow more wort to be treated , and to give a lively fake head to the finished product . |
| 5 | Avoid these in future , or , cut down on the seasoning . |
| 6 | ‘ I made that mistake once , but you should widen your interests , cut down on the travel and delegate more , ’ she told him , her expression serious . |
| 7 | Cut down on the feeding and forget the methylene blue and hopefully you will be successful with your fry next time . |
| 8 | If you include a Boss and Big Boss in your front rank this will reduce the number of vulnerable Goblins fighting and cut down on the number of casualties you suffer . |
| 9 | Cut down on the use of heated appliances such as dryers and tongs if possible and ALWAYS use a protective product beforehand . |
| 10 | Some nectar-eating ants cut down on the time they spend searching for food by using their body clock to alert them to mealtimes . |
| 11 | Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward . |
| 12 | The reduction in the numbers visiting the gardens has allowed the grass to remain green and cut down on the amount of litter dropped and graffiti scribbled . |
| 13 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 14 | Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration . |
| 15 | Cut off at the neck ! |
| 16 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 17 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 18 | This figure includes skin divers , bathers and water skiers , people and vehicles cut off by the tide and casualties who had fallen from cliffs or man-made structures . |
| 19 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 20 | Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land . |
| 21 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 22 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 23 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 24 | They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 25 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 26 | as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church . |
| 27 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 28 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 29 | At regional level , too , new sources of authority emerged ; in the coastal Basque provinces , cut off from the heartland of Republican Spain , the separate Basque Republic of Euskadi came into existence ; in Catalonia , where Companys reached an accommodation with the CNT , an anti-fascist Militia Committee ran affairs independently of Madrid ; and in October Aragon became an autonomous CNT fief administered by its own regional ‘ Council ’ . |
| 30 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |