Example sentences of "cutting [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General advice on making squares was offered with stress on making the limits and form of a square clear , making the traffic conform to decorative town planning and cutting down the space dedicated to vehicles in favour of giving additional tracks or spaces for other purposes , even if these sometimes have to be driven over . |
| 2 | Frightened by events in Eastern Europe , Vietnam 's ageing leaders appear to be trying to shore up the authority of the party by cutting down the independence of an already tightly-regulated press . |
| 3 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 4 | We saw that the combinatorial explosion of hypotheses produced by breadth-first search could be limited by cutting down the depth or the branching factor of the search space , and we described two general methods of doing this : — |
| 5 | I believe that the hon. Gentleman and his friends have misused those reports in the past , but cutting down the scope for reports from the inspectorate has nothing to do with my proposals . |
| 6 | In August 1931 , Wigram wrote to Sir Horace Rumbold , the British Ambassador to Germany , regretting that no single Party is going to face the music of reducing wages and cutting down the dole . |
| 7 | By cutting down the proportion of fat in your diet you can increase the other constituents ( protein and carbohydrate ) , and because of this , you should have no hunger pangs . |
| 8 | Cutting down the forest is sheer madness . |
| 9 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |
| 10 | Collor 's predecessor , Jose Sarney , abolished subsidies for cutting down the forest to make way for cattle in 1988 . |
| 11 | Glue , lighter fuel , gasoline , nail varnish and aerosols : these act by cutting down the amount of oxygen in the brain . |
| 12 | Cutting down the amount of laundry , consuming large quantities of detergent and water , might be one aspect of the charter 's influence that guests would notice first . |
| 13 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |
| 14 | Such considerations as these suggest that the feat of Gilgamesh in cutting down the cedar forest , besides its undoubted socio-economic significance ( wood was scarce in Uruk , and kings had to be great builders ) , was really one of successful symbolic castration of the phallic mother — in other words , the son 's successful defence of his own masculinity . |
| 15 | Oregon has a dozen bills pending that have to do with cutting down the number of pets . |
| 16 | Cutting down the number of variables . |
| 17 | Software for Free evaluates the very best in low cost software making the task of choosing a lot less frustrating and time consuming , and by effectively cutting down the number of programs you need to look at it might even save you some money . |
| 18 | Sorry , to , I 'll say that again to fit front and rear lights during production thus cutting down the number of accidents involving cyclists not showing lights during the hours of darkness even farther . |
| 19 | It all ended well , undoubtedly helped by the fact that one positive feature could be highlighted , namely the support and sympathy shown by the Emperor during the Indian Mutiny , when he had offered to allow passage through France to British reinforcements so that they could embark at Toulon , thus cutting down the time required for the voyage to India . |
| 20 | Cutting down the intake is a very good start , but regular exercise is very important too . |
| 21 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 22 | Well when you were cutting up the meat when you , in the shop and things like that , did you wear any special clothes for that ? |
| 23 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 24 | When knitting a cut and sew cardigan ( i.e. where the two fronts are created by knitting one sweater front and cutting up the centre ) , I always leave the two centre needles out of work after the cast on rows . |
| 25 | Hepzibah bent over him , cutting up the ham on his plate . |
| 26 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 27 | This consisted of cutting up the body into pieces and boiling it in wine or vinegar until fat and flesh separated from the bones . |
| 28 | Small teams of volunteers have spent an occasional afternoon continuing the work of clearing trees near the bridge , cutting up the timber and burning the brash . |
| 29 | For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place . |
| 30 | Despite much talk of cutting back the state , the central government 's annual output of new rules and changes to the old ones has risen by 8% since 1985 . |