Example sentences of "[noun] cut down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim tree trunks with the branches cut down to within a foot of the bole were placed against the battlements , and men began to climb up them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Noll cut down Charlie |
| 4 | As a result , the cocoa exporters cut down the use of the toxic pills . |
| 5 | Provide a simple bed in the kitchen , such as a cardboard box with one side cut down , to give easy access , and line this with old newspaper , putting a blanket on top . |
| 6 | Windows can have their heat loss cut down by double glazing and , in the US by storm windows , but it is expensive . |
| 7 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 8 | The magazine carried an article which announced that due to the high cost of electricity , there was a large growth in membership of specialist goldfish societies , as fishkeepers deserted their tropical tanks , in a bid to cut down their electricity bills . |
| 9 | An increasing number of pubs in the Northwich area are barring the younger drinkers on Friday and Saturday nights , in a bid to cut down on trouble . |
| 10 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 11 | ‘ We want industry to cut down on its own waste and make better use of other people 's . |
| 12 | Consumer pressure is now being put upon the food industry to cut down on such doctoring of foods and , at the same time , to provide quality durable produce . |
| 13 | But in addition to his constructive plans , Lanfranc also took steps to cut down the force of opposition to his changes by sending away ‘ for correction ’ one of the chief trouble-makers , a monk called Osbern . |
| 14 | Once they realised how risk had suddenly escalated they took steps to cut down their ‘ book ’ . |
| 15 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 16 | The DSS is taking action to cut down on big mortgages being paid by the taxpayer . |
| 17 | You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything . |
| 18 | In Earls Court in 1966 , before the days of good acoustic panels , we draped silk parachutes from the roof in an attempt to cut down the echo ; nowadays technology helps ! |
| 19 | Some information has necessarily been removed from the dictionary to cut down on storage requirements . |
| 20 | An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time . |
| 21 | Soviet mines cut down on sulphur emissions |
| 22 | Basketball : Giants cut down to size |
| 23 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 24 | In West Africa and South-East Asia , commercial loggers cut down hardwoods to supply rich consumer countries — but they rarely replant . |
| 25 | She says that it 's horrible , they get bricks thrown through their windows and clothes lines cut down . |
| 26 | Gray cut down one man with his sword . |
| 27 | But although his voice sounded cool and dismissive , his eyes , as he watched Simon cut down an alley between the shops , flamed bright with hostility . |
| 28 | The team from Oxfam found desperate refugees cutting down trees for fuel . |
| 29 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 30 | One night Len 's wife , a small woman , had repeatedly asked a trio of Teds from the next village to cut down their noise and stop carving the backs of the seats . |