Example sentences of "[noun] cut [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 2 | On 6 July , in a move generally interpreted as a retaliation for this seizure , the Eisenhower administration cut the balance of the Cuban sugar quota . |
| 3 | Peter almost doubled Muscovy 's few thousand administrative posts , but his successors cut the number so that in the mid eighteenth century the total was still little over 10,000 . |
| 4 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
| 5 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |
| 6 | General von Laffert , the German commander on the spot , had ordered that both villages ‘ must be defended to the utmost and be held to the last man , even if the enemy cuts the connections on both sides and also threatens them from the rear . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes red tape cuts the advantage that efficient foreigners should have ; this is the plight of financial and legal firms . |
| 8 | They both listened to the gentle burble of the exhaust for another minute , then Bert cut the engine . |
| 9 | Count Colli , the Italian Minister , quoted one of Lij Yasu 's officers as saying on his return from this expedition that Lij Yasu cut the breasts off a girl who had refused his advances , after he had watched her being raped by his soldiers . |
| 10 | Yorkshire wanted 145 from the last 20 overs and they seemed to have lost their way when Sachin Tendulkar needlessly ran himself out and Richard Blakey cut a hard catch to Trump . |
| 11 | Believed to be the GHOSTS of drowned men and women , the females frequently cause shipwrecks for love of a human sailor ; a person soon to die by drowning is said to see a mermaid cutting a caper upon the water 's surface , in anticipation of fresh company . |
| 12 | No sooner had the mayor cut the tape than five DHAC members ran to the centre of the road and sat down , holding up placards . |
| 13 | The Commission also aims to put pressure on industry to cut the amount of non-recyclable packaging . |
| 14 | These fruits were traditionally sun-dried after fumigation to remove any bugs and insects , but many are not dried by accelerated methods to cut the processing time and , therefore , the costs . |
| 15 | And they just had this the er er You know the what was I to say they had their their s scythes to cut the What was I to say ? |
| 16 | PARTS of the planned programme for the Edinburgh International Festival may have to be dropped if Edinburgh District Council accepts a recommendation to cut the annual grant by 2 per cent , a Festival representative said yesterday . |
| 17 | A similar attempt to cut the Gordian knot of Chapter 4 also proves to be fallacious . |
| 18 | According to an Interfax report an Azerbaijani attempt to cut the Lachin corridor [ see p. 39109 ] was repulsed on Oct. 4 . |
| 19 | The public would become used to high employment financed by permanent deficits and would object to any attempt to cut the deficit by raising taxes . |
| 20 | Finally MIND bitterly attacked what they believed to be the RHA 's intention to cut the Riverside budget for mental health by 45 per cent . |
| 21 | I assure the Hon. Gentleman that we have no intention to cut the necessary construction of new hospitals , such as that to replace East Glamorgan hospital . |
| 22 | Neolithic man would have used an axe to cut the trees . |
| 23 | They missed the 7.75 per cent rate as panicky ministers told National Savings to cut the rate 0.5 per cent . |
| 24 | Havant , with five England men on duty , beat Barford Tigers , 5-2 but , after leading 3-0 , allowed the Midland League club to cut the deficit to 3-2 early in the second half with corner goals by Mohamed . |
| 25 | The Temiar transplant young petai ( Parkia speciosa , Leguminosae — grown for their edible seeds ) seedlings into their gardens after the rice harvest and are reliant on bamboo for many purposes : house building , blowpipes and cooking pots for example , as well as knives to cut the umbilical cord in childbirth . |
| 26 | This and other poor investments cut the cash available to meet the soaring costs of Canary Wharf . |
| 27 | To make invisibly mounted brass nameplates cut a brass disc of the appropriate diameter and thickness ; I use 1 mm sheet , and 1 mm diameter . |
| 28 | Though expensive and time-consuming , the change cut the time needed for the project from three or four years to two . |
| 29 | As a means of confronting unemployment ( 9.5 per cent of the workforce ) the budget cut the tax on distributed company profits from 42 to 34 per cent , bringing it into line with that on retained profits . |
| 30 | TWO hitch-hikers cut a motorist 's throat with a Stanley knife before trying to steal his car radio . |