Example sentences of "[adv] cut [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |
| 2 | American publishers are noticeably cutting back on expensive art books with numerous colour illustrations . |
| 3 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 4 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 5 | Also , if you are drinking alcohol you should stop or at least cut down on low alcohol drinks or extending alcoholic drinks with low calorie mixers can be helpful . |
| 6 | The need , however , was for a permanent body to deal with matters affecting Nonconformity , to encourage unity amongst the various denominations or at least to cut down on needless competition , to present a united Nonconformist ‘ witness ’ when required and to give a ‘ Nonconformist ’ answer to political questions whenever possible , that is , when this could be done without alienating the Methodists , especially the Wesleyans . |
| 7 | It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation . |