Example sentences of "was cut [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of a harbour on a rough and windy day , which some small sailing ships were trying to enter with , it appeared to Ellie , no little difficulty , while behind them a steamer was cutting through the seas at great speed . |
| 2 | Men were bellowing fortissimo women screaming in order to be heard but Charity 's voice was cutting through the uproar effortlessly . |
| 3 | He saw this society as increasingly menaced by industrialization which , particularly in the cities , where power was now centralized , was cutting off the population from its roots . |
| 4 | Fabia was cutting into a slice of cheese when suddenly she halted . |
| 5 | In the later Empire Christians took vengeance upon the representatives of pagan authority by mutilating a bust 33 of Germanicus Caesar , in his day one of the most popular members of Augustus ' family : the nose was sliced off and a cross was cut into the forehead . |
| 6 | Although Canada won gold in the 1984 Olympics , government funding was cut following the Ben Johnson drugs scandal in Seoul and the country won no medals at this year 's world championships . |
| 7 | The large drain was cut following an Act of Enclosure in 1791 . |
| 8 | But when I cut the roads it was cut with a finger mower . |
| 9 | The representation of the urban population ( especially the working class ) , the peasantry and the national minorities was cut to a fraction . |
| 10 | One of Mr Smith 's fingers was cut to the bone in the attack , which was prompted by a row over a noisy motorcycle , it was heard . |
| 11 | She was cut to the quick by the accusation . |
| 12 | A section 55 ft long was cut across the rampart , and the tessellated pavement of the villa corridor was excavated , together with a small but complete building attached to it . |
| 13 | Lane 15 was cut off the gel before fluorography and instead stained with Coomassie Blue . |
| 14 | Then he almost holed his 160-yard approach on the 18th , where the hole was cut over a bunker and just a few feet onto the green . |
| 15 | Apparently the China deal was cut over the head ( and protest ) of USL 's other joint venture Univel Inc and Univel 's other owner Novell . |
| 16 | A furious row broke out and in the confusion Modigliani got the blame and poor Simone was cut over the eye with broken glass and scarred for life . |
| 17 | The tunnel was cut through a hill . |
| 18 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 19 | At dawn , amidst much clamour , a channel was cut through the dam and the Nile surged into the dry canal . |
| 20 | When this latter batch was modernised in 1936 , a centre gangway was cut through the benches to make life easier for the conductor . |
| 21 | It was cut on the run with a small budget and only half the band : Ray arrived about halfway through and Roy joined later . |
| 22 | Mr Leonard , who lives in central Darlington , said : ‘ I was cut on the head and pushed to the floor several times . |
| 23 | Lavender was exceptionally small for her age , a skinny little nymph with deep-brown eyes and with dark hair that was cut in a fringe across her forehead . |
| 24 | If the wavecut platform extends much further seawards than the projection of the degraded cliff it seems very likely that much of the platform was cut in the past at the foot of the cliff which has now become degraded and not in relation to the present active section at the bottom of the cliff , the state of affairs shown in Fig. 8.13 . |
| 25 | The hedge was cut in the summer with the fruit already formed , and the trimmings lie beneath it , covered with dry , wrinkled damsons that taste exactly like thin-fleshed prunes . |
| 26 | A second ditch was cut in the berm west of the palisade , presumably necessitating its removal . |
| 27 | He was cut in the face by flying glass . |
| 28 | The journey to Mantes , for each of them , was cut from a day to a couple of hours . |
| 29 | This was cut from a piece of linen texture board and then backed with some cream silk . |
| 30 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |