Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] to reduce [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist has to work hard to reduce the general level of anxiety and they should present as being relaxed , confident , and reassuring . |
| 2 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) argues that the venture capital industry has done little to reduce the funding gap and indeed that it may be getting larger . |
| 3 | But such projects and a successful geothermal programme which now accounts for more than 10% of Kenya 's electricity will do little to reduce the oil dependence which helps keep Kenya and many other African countries caught in an energy trap . |
| 4 | There may be a case for greater flexibility in the housing market , but a reduced public sector and probable higher housing costs will do little to reduce the national homelessness figures of over 100,000 . |
| 5 | As we said in section 2.3 , we should expect this to reduce the cost and increase the volume of lending and borrowing with possible consequences for both the balance between consumption and saving and the level of aggregate demand . |
| 6 | Until now , we have avoided this to reduce the risk of the blades striking the boom during the process of learning to hover . |
| 7 | For instance , it has , at times , looked desirable to reduce the order of battle of the Rhine Army , in order to build up a larger uncommitted and strategically mobile central reserve in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Visa restrictions brought in by foreign governments in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in March and April of 1988 did little to reduce the queues of hopefuls in the embassy districts of Beijing and Shanghai . |
| 9 | Resistor R5 reduces this flow a little , so that a small percentage is fed back to pin 2 to reduce the a.c. gain of the op.amp . |