Example sentences of "crack down 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 ! |
| 21 | Almost all aspects of life suffered under martial law which was used by consecutive governments to ban large public meetings and to crack down on any political groups and political parties working underground . |
| 22 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 23 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 24 | The police are only now beginning to crack down on this type of smuggling . |
| 25 | If he cracks down on you , London would crack down on all the fringe people who go in and out of the Soviet network there . |