Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 3 | Pub landlords say cutting down on young drinkers stops trouble . |
| 4 | For example , annual purchases of ammunition seem likely , by the mid-1990s , to be at least 25% down on 1989 levels . |
| 5 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 9 | Cut down on all fats , particularly those from animal sources especially lard , suet , double cream and full-fat cheeses . |
| 10 | Thus , in lighter winds , it should be kept down on all points of sailing . |
| 11 | On a clear day there are magnificent views from all along this road as well as from the summit , and you can look down on all sides of the island , even to Porto Santo . |
| 12 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 13 | 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 ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I live in hope that the Institute will be clamping down on such practices , although I fear that this will increase the cost of an audit for the smaller business . |
| 16 | In the past , the IFA has clamped down on such outbursts against referees and is now looking into the matter . |
| 17 | Restoration of the Asylum Bill , designed to crack down on bogus refugees . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 20 | He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures . |
| 21 | Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria . |
| 22 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 23 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 24 | Dragons can lie for dark centuries brooding over their treasures , bedding down on frozen flames that will never see the light of day . |
| 25 | Britain 's ports will be free to go private , and new powers will be sought to clamp down on drunk drivers ; congestion will also be tackled . |
| 26 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 27 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 28 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 29 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 30 | cut down on fatty foods |