Example sentences of "[noun] to cut down " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 5 | ‘ We want industry to cut down on its own waste and make better use of other people 's . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Once they realised how risk had suddenly escalated they took steps to cut down their ‘ book ’ . |
| 9 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 10 | The DSS is taking action to cut down on big mortgages being paid by the taxpayer . |
| 11 | You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Some information has necessarily been removed from the dictionary to cut down on storage requirements . |
| 14 | An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 17 | A hard-hitting campaign to cut down on accidents , and save lives AND money , has been launched by five safety and rescue services . |
| 18 | A subsidised dog neutering scheme is being extended in South Tyneside to cut down on the number of stray dogs . |
| 19 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 20 | The company is spending nearly £150m across the company over the next five years to cut down on emissions from its factories . |
| 21 | Can I suggest that , rather than a draconian ban on book copying ( which will be ignored by Herbarium staff anyway ) , we try to replace this machine with one with a flexible lid to cut down on light ingress , as found in most libraries & universities ? |
| 22 | Britain 's Liberal Democrats have called for urgent measures to tackle the health risks posed by air pollution , including more investment in public transport to cut down on exhaust emissions , the acceptance of World Health Organisation ( WHO ) monitoring guidelines , and an increase in air pollution monitoring stations . |
| 23 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 24 | And so I would like to discount all this talk about the need to cut down on commuting . |
| 25 | It will perhaps be , in certain parts of the world , that the need to cut down pollution is the most important factor — witness Los Angeles , San Francisco — and there electric cars are non-polluting and therefore would be appropriate to use there . |
| 26 | It will take 2 days to cut down all 80 trunks and clear away the wood . |
| 27 | During the tour , Stout remembers that Charman and Gedge told Solowka to cut down on his drinking because it was starting to affect his playing . |
| 28 | For less than £10 you can buy an approved 80mm ( 3inch ) tank jacket to cut down on heat loss . |
| 29 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 30 | Enabling technologies include the Bull Product Data Management System , which it says applies concurrent engineering to cut down design-to-manufacturing time and reduce costs , and ‘ integration enablers ’ , which Bull says connect two or more manufacturing applications ‘ without the time and cost of customized development ’ . |