Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 2 | Cut out some of the obscurer passages , and anything too tactless . |
| 3 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
| 4 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 5 | LocoScript PC Easy cuts out some of the more esoteric features that can usually be found in a word processor these days — advanced layout features such as newspaper style columns , the ability to add footnotes , access to an on-line thesaurus etc . |
| 6 | Well you , you can actually cut down some of the overtime maybe , and you need to review that and that 's , you need to make that decision . |
| 7 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 8 | It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is . |
| 9 | In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same . |
| 10 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 11 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 12 | The first thing most people do when they diet is to cut out many of the foods they like . |
| 13 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |
| 14 | I always buy your magazine , but to get a picture of ‘ Slash ’ or ‘ Satch ’ I have to cut out half of the interview page . |