Example sentences of "clamp down [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informix Software Ltd is setting up an investigation unit in the UK , providing a free , confidential phone line for resellers and users and including a licence manager with its software , in a new initiative to clamp down on software piracy in its reseller channel . |
| 2 | The Osaka police department has considered one strategy to clamp down on otaku porn networks : hire otaku policemen . |
| 3 | With the Paisley MPs Irene Adams and Gordon McMaster , Mr McFall was lending his support to Operation Blade , an initiative by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 4 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 5 | The reluctance of the judge at first instance to adopt a policy approach at a time when the obvious intention of the Act , not to mention the thrust of securities regulation in general , was to clamp down on market abuse , can only be described as an anomalous , not to mention unwelcome , development . |
| 6 | ‘ If Whitehall clamps down on capital expenditure there will be real problems for whole areas of capital spending not just Woodchurch pool . |