Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walesa signed a bill to revalue pensions on Nov. 8 , but announced that the law was to be amended immediately to reduce the number of people whose pensions would be cut as a result . |
| 2 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 3 | They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion , though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges . |
| 4 | Any remaining balance of ACT must be carried forward to reduce future tax liabilities . |
| 5 | In addition companies belonging to the state holding company IRI , mainly banking interests ( in the Banca Commerciale Italiano and the Banco di Roma ) and shipbuilding interests , would be sold off to reduce IRI 's debt . |
| 6 | The availability of emission control options which can be implemented speedily to reduce pollution emissions from traffic , industry and homes . |
| 7 | Thus proposals in the White Paper ( DHSS , 1985b ) were intended instead to reduce the cost of the SERP scheme . |
| 8 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 9 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 10 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 11 | Other issues given special attention include health and safety , in which has a responsibility for all Courtaulds Coatings plants in Europe , and the environment , where water-borne and high-solids coatings are being used increasingly to reduce solvent emissions . |
| 12 | Those in the diet group were asked both to reduce their intake of refined carbohydrates and to increase their dietary fibre by substituting high for low fibre products and by taking supplements of standardised wheat bran ( three or four ×7.5 g sachets of Prewett 's coarse wheat bran ) . |
| 13 | An ingenious approach to handling fonts and type-faces was unveiled last week that is claimed radically to reduce storage requirements , simplify portability and enable users to design their own fonts . |
| 14 | In those circumstances , it was thought right to reduce some of the activities of the RNR and to make them more relevant to the future . |