Example sentences of "cut off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder . |
| 2 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 3 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |
| 4 | Discarded socks can be cut off at the ankle bend to make a similar protective sleeve . |
| 5 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 6 | WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR CUT OFF FOR AN ALBUM COVER ? |
| 7 | Sister Martha 's hair is cut off with a pair of gold scissors , she lies arms outflung on the marble slab . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Later the woman 's benefit was cut off on the grounds that she and her lodger were living together as husband and wife , and he must therefore maintain her . |
| 10 | As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates . |
| 11 | On a visit to Northern Ireland , he was brash enough to taunt the region that it was a burden on the Westminster exchequer and could be cut off without a penny . |
| 12 | THIS NEWSPAPER PHOTO WAS CUT OFF UNDER THE CHIN FOR SECURITY REASONS , SO THAT THE BRASS PATHFINDER BROOCH WAS NOT SHOWN . |
| 13 | The shoots are always cut off near the ground . |
| 14 | As elsewhere some of the pauses between movements sound artificially curtailed ; ditto the resonance of the final notes , which as throughout the set is cut off before the applause . |
| 15 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 16 | Where the injury is traumatic , such as a person being struck by a car or having a hand cut off in a machine , there is usually no difficulty . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 18 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 19 | That openness to liberated desire is cut off in the films which the Boxes produce . |
| 20 | And two weeks ago , one of our colony supply ships managed to broadcast a more reliable report — until transmission was cut off by a boarding party . |
| 21 | Some boys are cut off by the tide ! " |
| 22 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 23 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 24 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 25 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 26 | ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest . |
| 27 | Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 28 | Despite the county council efforts , several towns and villages , including Tow Law , Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale , were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 29 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 30 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |