Example sentences of "cutting [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a dreadful finality about cutting down a tree . |
| 2 | She made his costume , cutting down a white linen shirt and fitting it tight up round the neck . |
| 3 | What you doing , cutting down a bit on his milk ? |
| 4 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cutting down the forest is sheer madness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oregon has a dozen bills pending that have to do with cutting down the number of pets . |
| 10 | Jane stopped the chainsaw-happy men from cutting down the trees . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Glue , lighter fuel , gasoline , nail varnish and aerosols : these act by cutting down the amount of oxygen in the brain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These figures suggest that interviewing by telephone is not a particularly good way of cutting down the high refusal rate customary in sociolinguistic surveys ; but interestingly , Nordberg ( 1980 ) reports a very much lower refusal rate in Sweden . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cutting down the number of variables . |
| 18 | Then he heard Madra 's despairing cry , and turned to see the enemy Myrcans surging on to the ramparts , their staffs swinging , cutting down the defenders like corn . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cutting down the intake is a very good start , but regular exercise is very important too . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After it 's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest . |
| 23 | Some would find work with the foresters cutting down the trees . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 : — |
| 27 | Collor 's predecessor , Jose Sarney , abolished subsidies for cutting down the forest to make way for cattle in 1988 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump . |
| 30 | The rain forest also gives us lots of oxygen and so we need to tell people to stop cutting down the trees |