Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to crack down on increasing levels of vandalism and the emergence of street gangs in the area will be decided today at a special meeting of the council 's Police Liaison Committee . |
| 2 | crack down on inhumane rearing of livestock , particularly poultry , pigs and dairy herds . |
| 3 | Their shoulders shake , hinging up and down on well-oiled ball-and-socket joints made of stainless steel . |
| 4 | The Bank of Italy clamped down on monetary policy in 1963 , generating a major recession in 1964–5 . |
| 5 | Maybe I 'm an owl , watching the other owls screech down on helpless little mice , but I wo n't forsake my vegetarian principles . |
| 6 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 7 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 8 | Pub landlords say cutting down on young drinkers stops trouble . |
| 9 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 10 | He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land . |
| 11 | The entrance hall , although large and square , was panelled in some dark wood , which made it gloomy , and the ancestral portraits which stared disapprovingly down on Sabine as she mounted the stairs did nothing to lighten the atmosphere . |
| 12 | For Louis , Antoinette had kicked off her buttoned high-heeled shoes by the wine racks and lain down on gritty sand . |
| 13 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 14 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 15 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 16 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 17 | Also , if you are drinking alcohol you should stop or at least cut down on low alcohol drinks or extending alcoholic drinks with low calorie mixers can be helpful . |
| 18 | improved value for money should be obtained by cutting down on unnecessary procedures , ( e.g. committals , remand hearings ) , strengthening controls on the progress of legally aided proceeding , changing listing practices , and restricting legal aid to solicitors who have demonstrated competence by membership of an appropriate panel ; |
| 19 | In an effort to cut down on unnecessary distribution of papers , I do not propose to circulate this list to all members . |
| 20 | Perdita , however , was excitedly looking down on vast faded pink rivers curling through spinach-green forest , and the blue shadow of their plane lying across Buenos Aires . |
| 21 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
| 22 | Suppose coal were run down on short-term profit calculations , how did any private or public organisation running the railways cope with the consequences to freight ? |
| 23 | Inanna made a bitter sound and sat down on tapestried coverlet . |
| 24 | It is a spectacularly successful conjuring trick that capitalism in the West has pulled off : with one hand cutting down on paid labour by encouraging people to regard the jobs that used to be done by other workers as new forms of leisure , whilst with the other hand establishing new ( and more profitable ) economic sectors around voluntary pastoral care , such as care for the elderly . |
| 25 | Restoration of the Asylum Bill , designed to crack down on bogus refugees . |
| 26 | Voting was 169 to 114 , as Liberal Democrat and Labour peers joined rebel Tories to support the change to the controversial Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill which aims to clamp down on bogus asylum claims and speed genuine applications . |
| 27 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 28 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 29 | PPL cracks down on illegal music |
| 30 | At the same time the government is rushing ahead with non-economic reforms which it knows will be popular , such as tightening up the conditions for acquiring French citizenship and clamping down on illegal immigration . |