Example sentences of "[prep] reducing the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some health boards have experienced trouble finding suitable numbers of business people to take up the available seats , even after reducing the size of boards from 18 to 12 . |
| 2 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 3 | If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values . |
| 4 | Only one patient ( 6% ) receiving cyclosporin met our criteria for nephrotoxicity and that patient improved after reducing the dose . |
| 5 | Again , the defence let them down , and despite reducing the deficit to only one goal before the break , Bradford won with plenty in hand against a stuttering home side . |
| 6 | Again , the defence let them down , and despite reducing the deficit to only one goal before the break , Bradford won with plenty in hand against a stuttering home side . |
| 7 | With the introduction of System 6.0.2 Apple went some way towards reducing the problem by adding a new resource called NFNT . |
| 8 | Commenting on the success of the database , John Keanie , Town Clerk and Chief Executive of Derry City Council , said : ‘ The launch of the ERNACT economic database is a tangible result for the members of the ERNACT team and is an important step towards reducing the peripherality of the North West region . |
| 9 | The rationale for including MIL is that conscription works towards reducing the unemployment rate if individuals are more likely to be drafted into the services if they are unemployed . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education . |
| 11 | They promote a " traditional " approach to design problem solving , centred around analytical techniques which are directed towards reducing the number of alternatives that can be considered viable . |
| 12 | As a means towards reducing the number of word paths , we considered the possibility of increasing the number of ‘ sound units ’ by using allophones in both the input utterance and the lexicon . |
| 13 | One of the reform proposals is to simplify the procedures for amalgamating forces and there was wide speculation earlier this year that the Home Office was considering reducing the number to between 20 and 25 . |
| 14 | A further way of reducing the spread of sampling is to use what is called cluster sampling , a device by which sub-units are grouped together and work concentrated on them . |
| 15 | In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio . |
| 16 | Someone in the Works and Buildings Department , haunted by the thought of these urinals gushing pointlessly at regular intervals all through the hours of darkness , Sundays and public holidays , had hit on this means of reducing the University 's water rate . |
| 17 | The government seems set on a policy of reducing the percentage of labour contained in total costs : If this is done to make our goods more competitive abroad , the depreciation of our currency has already taken care of that aspect . |
| 18 | And they have applied two rather unique techniques to study this question ; it 's a technique that 's er , er rather unique to Oxford , it seems that across the country , most people have looked at this particular problem of reducing the fluid in the lung . |
| 19 | The latter method has the advantage of reducing the vendors ' capital gains tax liability and the purchaser 's stamp duty . |
| 20 | The 1968 Caravan Sites Act will be reviewed with the aim of reducing the nuisance of illegal encampments . |
| 21 | This chapter describes the efforts of an organisation which attempted to implement Oral Rehydration Therapy on a national scale , with the intention of reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by diarrhoea . |
| 22 | The Act made several other changes in the hope of reducing the friction between counties and districts , but the difficulties remain — especially between the counties and the districts based on former county boroughs ( Alexander 1982a:55 — 7 ; 1982b:67 — 8 ) . |
| 23 | According to Gatfield there is one obvious way of reducing the odds : |
| 24 | It is possible that Mr Brooke , or a successor , may begin to think in terms of reducing the UDR 's role and size , and perhaps even phasing it out . |
| 25 | The only consequence of the Secretary of State 's admission that the Drum appeal consent , issued in terms of policy HP8 , could not contribute to the Edinburgh HP4 supply , was the ‘ de minimus ’ affect of reducing the land to meet the HP4 requirement by some 129 units . |
| 26 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 27 | Conservative governments obviously encouraged such sales as part of their general policy of reducing the size of the public sector . |
| 28 | One method of reducing the size is to adopt a large-scale version of the four-pen plotter idea where the paper moves in one axis and the pen moves in the other . |
| 29 | Quinney ( 1977 ) and Jankovic ( 1977 ) have argued that prison acts as a way of reducing the size of the reserve army of labour . |
| 30 | When the politician pursues the goal , for example , of reducing the size of the public sector , is it likely that there will be a whole-hearted commitment to this goal when this may directly threaten the job security and promotion prospects of the official ? |