Example sentences of "cut down the " in BNC.

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1 There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more .
2 THIS TIME last year a crew of 50 descended on Caroline and Roger Shapland 's 17th-century Oxfordshire farmhouse , cut down the holly bush at the end of their drive , ripped up their carpets , removed their light switches and took over all but one of their bedrooms .
3 British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees
4 The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush .
5 And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating .
6 As the Turks cut down the oak-trees to fuel the trains , so Lawrence blew up the track .
7 Cut down the grooming time but do it quickly , efficiently and calmly .
8 This would save energy and cut down the risk of fires .
9 The approval by members at the June special meeting of a reformed scheme should , with luck , cut down the time that references to the JDS take to complete , as well as the cost of these expensive investigations .
10 They cut down the flowery mass
11 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed .
12 When humans cut down the forest , it might be replaced by a permanent grassland because the soil itself had been modified in a way that prevented the trees from reseeding themselves .
13 Cut down the baby baggage
14 ‘ In the meantime I suggest we cut down the cross-referencing .
15 It said 60 anti-guerrilla units cut down the plants in the indigenous area of Aponte in El Tablon , more than 460km ( 312 miles ) southwest of Bogota , at the weekend .
16 Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ?
17 Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words .
18 Yeah okay yeah , cut down the entertainment that 's not , cut down on the clothes , we would n't buy so many expensive clothes I suppose .
19 ‘ It cuts down the friction . ’
20 It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc .
21 This is because the carbon monoxide content of cigarette smoke cuts down the amount of oxygen in the blood and accordingly the heart has to work harder yet it is getting less oxygen .
22 This cuts down the risk of a photographer becoming stale and running out of ideas about how to present the material .
23 If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques .
24 For some operators , there is the added benefit of a deal put together and managed by a service company which cuts down the workload for in-house geophysicists .
25 For instance aluminium costs 95% less in energy when recycles which cuts down the use of fossil fuels and reduces pollution .
26 From this it is deduced that one who is seised must have an estate , and unless he claims through some gift which cuts down the estate then it will be a fee simple …
27 And it cuts down the work then .
28 So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes .
29 When Charles cut down the sacred tree Irminsul , he was destroying the one central element of Saxony that all tribes seemed to look to and respect .
30 When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute .
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