Example sentences of "crack [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | crack down on inhumane rearing of livestock , particularly poultry , pigs and dairy herds . |
| 2 | Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria . |
| 3 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 4 | Starting with a spectacular seizure of thousands of leading brand products , the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has begun cracking down on misleading food labelling . |
| 5 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 6 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 7 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 31 adopted legislation cracking down on black-market trading in the period of transition to a market economy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Labour leaders yesterday urged Prime Minister Mr Major to crack down on economic sanctions with Serbia . |
| 10 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 11 | Restoration of the Asylum Bill , designed to crack down on bogus refugees . |
| 12 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 13 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 14 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 15 | LANCASHIRE have pledged to crack down on foulmouthed fans . |
| 16 | The USGA have made clear their intention to crack down on slow play at Baltusrol and Langer believes he is not one of the worst offenders . |
| 17 | Kurds in Turkey say they have been tortured and repressed in a bloody campaign by the government to crack down on separatist guerrillas fighting for an independent Kurdistan . |
| 18 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
| 19 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation this week launched a campaign to crack down on so-called ‘ thirsty buildings ’ to make more water available for rivers and wetlands . |
| 20 | Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy , who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon ! |