Example sentences of "[verb] cut [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 2 | THE recession has cut dramatically the number of alcohol-related crimes . |
| 3 | The sale of some companies — the Belgian subsidiaries , for instance — has cut down the need for audit , as have some reorganisations . |
| 4 | Frederica Freer has cut out the messy business by photographing the endpapers of 18th- and 19th-century books from the collection in her Gloucestershire house and turning the prints into postcards . |
| 5 | Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives . |
| 6 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 7 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 8 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 9 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 10 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 11 | The problem each system faced was that the matching process created a large number of partial solutions , and various heuristics had to be used to cut down the search space . |
| 12 | I told him that if he did n't cut out the vicious behaviour , Brian and I were going to cut out the co-operation , we 'd stop eating . |
| 13 | The pale blue vertical blind in G was half closed to cut out the sun , and the room was refreshingly cool . |
| 14 | It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc . |
| 15 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1930 , 1950 If they really have got their act together and manage to cut out the cynical stuff , Uruguay could achieve much more this time . |
| 16 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 17 | Use a steel chisel or bolster to cut away the plaster and brick to a depth of about 35mm |
| 18 | The mechanical process of elegant correction and rephrasing cut out the ugly , self-stultifying labouring of mistakes . |
| 19 | ‘ You tell her , Gaby , and remember to cut out the philosophy . ’ |
| 20 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 21 | Those wishing to cut out the middleman should head straight for the garrison town of Wundsdorf , headquarters of the Western Army Group and a staging post for military train on the journey home . |
| 22 | It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump . |
| 23 | Fixing a metal mesh kit into an existing opening entails cutting away the plaster so that the expanded metal mesh can be nailed to the brickwork using masonry nails . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 26 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 27 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 28 | Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing . |
| 29 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 30 | Cawthorne seems to have cut out the middleman . |