Example sentences of "cut [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had ideas which cut through the mass of tradition and very dull detail which hung around materials work everywhere but unfortunately nobody took them very seriously . |
| 2 | Then they cut up the middle of the front to make a cardigan . |
| 3 | Then they cut up the middle of the front to make a cardigan . |
| 4 | Both city 's having much to gain from a 2-thirds cut in the amount of exhaust emissions compared to conventional petrol or diesel driven vehicles . |
| 5 | He has cut public transport funding and cut in the number of people employed in the public transport service . |
| 6 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 7 | Iron-on interfacing ( eg Vilene , available from department stores and haberdashery stores ) cut to the size of the finished cushion , plus 1.5cm seam allowance all round . |
| 8 | They can be conveniently categorized as concordant or discordant depending on whether or not they cut across the bedding of the pre-existing strata ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 9 | Where these latter principles of differentiation are coterminous with certain aspects of the division of labour ( and with each other ) , the chances of formation of a politically pertinent collectivity within the ‘ division of labour grid ’ may be increased ( e.g. ‘ working class ’ catholics in the west of Scotland as a traditional Labour Party support-base ) ; where they cut across the division of labour the chances may be diminished ( the difficulty of developing ‘ class ’ politics in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 10 | The example a few hundred yards upstream cuts through the neck of an entrenched meander , but it is some 100 m ( 330 ft ) long so that considerable modification will have to take place before it becomes a true natural arch of the Ardèche type , if it ever does . |
| 11 | The nylon line drops out of nowhere and cuts through the flesh of his upper arm like a cheese wire . |
| 12 | Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 14 | Theo Waigel , the finance minister , explained that Germany could not afford draconian budget cuts in the middle of recession . |
| 15 | In mid-March there were riots in the capital after students demanded payment of their overdue grants and cuts in the cost of university meals and accommodation . |
| 16 | Since nineteen eighty seven the number of vacant local authority dwellings has also fallen and these are the cuts I do want , cuts in the number of empty houses , cuts in the rent arrears , cuts in the tax arrears so that the money is there to spend on the services that people want . |
| 17 | Why do workers prefer to take real wage cuts in the form of price rises ? |
| 18 | Take the right hand path which cuts over the shoulder of Sail Liath and drops down to Shenavall , near the head of Loch na Sealga . |
| 19 | The Morgan affair cuts to the heart of Docherty 's character . |
| 20 | A journey to the heartland of today 's Ireland , Jiving at the Crossroads cuts to the core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche — between the past and the present , between the urban and the rural — creating a unique insight into the dilemmas faced by a whole generation born since de Valera 's vision of comely lads and lasses dancing at the crossroads . |
| 21 | So we shall postpone consideration of just where the semantics/pragmatics borderline cuts across the field of deixis until 2.3 below . |
| 22 | Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly . |
| 23 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 24 | I gave him my sword , and at once he cut off the head of his enemy . |
| 25 | He told the court : ‘ It shut slowly and then slammed on my finger … it cut off the top of my ring finger . ’ |
| 26 | He cut off the rest of the frantic protest with his mouth , wrenching her against him and covering her angrily parted lips with his own . |
| 27 | Paul had the technical know-how to copy Edison 's Kinetoscope when he realized the American inventor had n't covered all the necessary patents , to make his own camera when Edison cut off the supply of films and produce a film projector , the Theatrograph , within two months of hearing about Lumière 's invention . |
| 28 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 29 | Then behind him he heard the word , it cut through the fug of the bar , ‘ INSPECTOR ’ . |
| 30 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |