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

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1 Savimbi had earlier cut short a European tour after a visit to Portugal [ see p. 37176 ] in order to return to direct military operations from Jamba .
2 According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis .
3 Protests have followed the weekend killings in South Africa , President De Klerk has cut short a visit to attend to the crisis , Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling for South Africa to be expelled from the Olympic games if action is not taken .
4 but you see unless the day was cut short no flesh would be saved anyway , so it proves in Matthew that there is gon na be some flesh left
5 A most unforeseen occurrence cut short the Revd Dr William Dodd 's participation in this crusade when , a few years after he wrote his Account , he was charged with the capital offence of forgery .
6 Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet .
7 The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before .
8 Madame cut short the protest .
9 There is no satisfactory treatment for herpes simplex infections and the best that can be offered is medication to ease the symptoms and possibly cut short an attack , and advice on how to cope with the problems that recurrent herpes brings .
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