1.   As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut.

2.   But at other times they seem like sledgehammers to crack nuts.

3.   Talk about using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut!

4.   Teeth are especially worthy of admiration, being capable, with proper maintenance, of cracking nuts for something like forty years.

5.   There are two ways to crack this nut.

6.   We had been sitting there since early that morning, cracking the nuts, picking out the flesh with needles.

7.   We were sitting round the fire cracking nuts.

8.   They cracked the nuts and removed their shells.

9.   The squirrel cracked the nut and ate the meat inside.

10.   Another lesson, so clearly demonstrated this week, is that diplomacy alone cannot crack tough nuts like Saddam Hussein.