Example sentences of "the [noun sg] cut [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was viewed as the opportunity to cut back on staff costs . |
| 2 | From Solva the route cuts back across country to Llanunwas Farm . |
| 3 | Some information has necessarily been removed from the dictionary to cut down on storage requirements . |
| 4 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 6 | The children go into the hall and find a frame with the picture cut out of it ; an empty cash box ; or a desk and chairs overturned , papers strewn all over to give the impression of a ransacked office . |
| 7 | There were demands for higher wages , for social reform and for wider access to higher education , yet in 1966 the government felt the need to cut back on spending programmes as the economy moved into a minor recession . |
| 8 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 9 | And so I would like to discount all this talk about the need to cut down on commuting . |
| 10 | Here , the length will have to be marked on the last piece when it is in position and the excess cut off with a hacksaw . |
| 11 | It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too . |
| 12 | The meltem cut in at about 1100 , immediately after the Blox returned from the shore in the inflatables , bearing the round loaves ordered the previous night in the tiny restaurant among the ruins . |
| 13 | The design is carefully stencilled on to the fabric , then embroidered and the pattern cut out by hand to produce bed linen of the very highest quality . |
| 14 | Its backers , which include the government 's British Technology Group , have told the firm to cut back on research and make a profit by next year or face closure . |
| 15 | The press was another estate of the realm cut down to size . |
| 16 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |