Example sentences of "[be] cut the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made . |
| 2 | the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year . |
| 3 | Yeah cos you find you 're cutting the too short |
| 4 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 5 | Yes , oh no , I agree with that , but when you 're cutting the meat , what are your butchers doing ? |
| 6 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 7 | But we talk about this and we said we 're cutting the shopping down , I 'm not going shopping . |
| 8 | In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs . |
| 9 | The report that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced last week revealed that this year we are due to treat an extra 250,000 patients ; we are cutting the number of long ’ waiters ’ , and creating a service that is responsive to patient needs . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the sentence " I am cutting the meat for mother " can be said in these three different ways : This leads to three different types of clauses according to whether it is the Subject , Object or Benefactor that is the topic . |
| 11 | You 've been cutting the bottom part of the grass ? |
| 12 | Yes , they do n't know cos they 're both Daily Mail readers and I 'm cutting the majority of these out . |
| 13 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 14 | Who 's fucking been cut the bottom off my ? |
| 15 | The only problem being cutting the hedge . |
| 16 | The only problem being cutting the hedge . |
| 17 | Two men , guiding power mowers , were cutting the gigantic surface of the joint 5th and 13th green which , at 5,550 square yards , might well be the biggest putting surface in the world . |
| 18 | While they were cutting the suit off me they asked ‘ How many persons on board ? ’ |
| 19 | A week or two after the sheep-shearing , Bathsheba was in the hayfields , where her workers were cutting the hay . |
| 20 | One hot summer afternoon Tony , John and Pip were cutting the long grass . |
| 21 | Nothing in the woods was wasted , after the chestnut and ash poles were cut the rest was cut for bavins or winter kiln bavins , selling at six shillings per hundred , the best poles of chestnut at £15 — £20 per 1,000 . |
| 22 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 23 | Their main problem is cutting the clothes to fit Kylie 's petite size 6 figure . |
| 24 | The Bath Clinic in Avon is cutting the price of vasectomies to £180 to attract patients over a traditionally quiet Christmas . |
| 25 | ‘ If the tube is cut then what the doctors are doing is cutting the thread of life , ’ James Munby QC , representing the Official Solicitor told the court yesterday . |
| 26 | Hauppauge , New York-based Standard Microsystems Corp is cutting the recommended retail price of its Token-Ring network adaptors to $400 from $600 , saying that using its own semiconductor technology makes it possible to cut prices while continuing to add features and maintain margins on the adaptors . |
| 27 | Chatsworth , California-based Micropolis Corp is cutting the price of RAIDion fault-tolerant disk array subsystems for NetWare 3.11 networks by up to 20% , bringing the cost as low as $2.83 per Megabyte . |
| 28 | He is thought to be a man who is going to increase taxes , not one who is cutting the deficit . |
| 29 | Will he explain why he is cutting the industry budget even as manufacturing investment and employment are falling and are predicted to fall further throughout 1992 ? |
| 30 | Another change administration officials are looking at is cutting the passenger ticket tax from 8 per cent to 2 per cent to encourage more travel . |