Example sentences of "[is] cut [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's cutting a hole in his sock . ’
2 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 .
3 When an agent is cutting a deal , he or she needs to leave something for everyone .
4 Hairflair interviewed the Edinburgh lass who is cutting a name for herself at the Charlie Miller salon .
5 A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant .
6 Advancing at more than 50 metres a week , the elevated road and rail highway is cutting a swathe through the city under the noses of astonished motorists .
7 A carpet company is cutting a hundred and fifty jobs .
8 Their main problem is cutting the clothes to fit Kylie 's petite size 6 figure .
9 The Bath Clinic in Avon is cutting the price of vasectomies to £180 to attract patients over a traditionally quiet Christmas .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He is thought to be a man who is going to increase taxes , not one who is cutting the deficit .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
16 The long north frieze shows a Gigantomachy , and on one Giant 's shield is cut a signature .
17 Even if you decide to dispense with speeches altogether , you may find that after the cake is cut the crowd of well-wishers start chanting , ‘ Speech !
18 ‘ All I will do is cut the tethers .
19 ‘ River 's cut the road again .
20 It 's cut the wire and the chain that holds the gates shut and it
21 When hose-pipe bans are on , an easy and efficient way to water rows of beans is to cut a length of hosepipe about 3ft longer than your row and make holes along its length , leaving the surplus length at one end hole-free .
22 The first is to cut a hole in the ceiling and to fit a metal or plastic BESA box ( designed for use with conduit wiring ) , with its face flush with the ceiling , and with the box screwed to a supporting piece of timber fixed between the joists ; the BESA box has two screwed holes which match the holes in the plate supporting the chain or screwed rod .
23 If the ubiquitous black bin liner is to provide the covering , a decorative option is to cut a pattern out of its centre to suit a contrasting overlay .
24 A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point .
25 RENAULT is to cut the workforce at its Renault Vehicules Industriels subsidiary by 1,000 .
26 The method used in figure 9.5 is to cut the distribution in two and to display the percentage in one or other group ; here the percentages endorsing the two pessimistic response categories have been amalgamated ( it is slightly inaccurate to describe those who think the economy deteriorated in the past as ‘ pessimists ’ , but it is a convenient shorthand ) .
27 NISSAN IS TO CUT the number of model variants on sale in the UK after posting its first worldwide financial loss for 41 years .
28 The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife .
29 Probably the best method is to cut the saddle into three sections , so that each section sits across two piezo blocks .
30 OIL giant Shell is to cut the price of petrol by 18p a gallon from midnight tomorrow .
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