Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] reduce [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the ( far smaller ) Living Water designs , the project will be much cheaper to construct than a conventional treatment works of comparable size , with operating costs about 80 per cent lower ( partly because of vastly reduced energy consumption , a good environmental argument in itself ) . |
| 2 | Only one test proved sensitive to the effects of gradually reduced sleep — the Rapid Alternation Test — where an increase in the number of long responses , or lapses , was noticed at the lowest sleep levels . |
| 3 | The effect of gradually reducing lung area is not an absolute , all-or-none effect on survival . |
| 4 | This leads Johnes to question whether raising academic standards for entry , in terms of A-level scores , could be justified as a satisfactory way of substantially reducing wastage rates , given the complex range of factors which are involved in predicting success in higher education , and that raising entry standards in this way would almost certainly bar students capable of obtaining a degree . |
| 5 | ( They 're primitive , semi-humanoid exters who have n't given up being cannibals despite sharply reduced birth rate . |
| 6 | There was chronic overcapacity on domestic US passenger air routes , and rising fuel prices now coincided with a period of heavily reduced passenger bookings , connected with the weakness of the dollar and with fears arising from the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | during a period of seriously reduced visibility on that road . |
| 8 | ‘ during a period of seriously reduced visibility conditions on that road ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ during a period of seriously reduced visibility conditions on that road ’ . |
| 10 | Am I covered for partial disability , such as permanently reduced vision ? |
| 11 | Some products can be a combination of more than one method but all will have the goal of creating a full flavoured drink with greatly reduced alcohol content . |
| 12 | Conference delegates were severely critical of Denis Sassou-Nguesso , who was to remain President , but with greatly reduced executive powers , during the transitional period . |
| 13 | In 1993 , with further reduced capital spending and our still strong underlying cash flows , proceeds from divestments will be directed to reduce debt levels and restore our financial strength . |
| 14 | If minor degrees of depression or diminished wellbeing lead to significantly lower blood pressure , then it should follow that depression that is sufficiently severe to lead to hospital admission will be associated with substantially reduced blood pressure . |
| 15 | Everyone knows that 1990 will be a tough year , with bookings something like 40 per cent down , the public playing a lament in J. Major , the tour operators bent on improving profit margins instead of competing by price for market share , with heavily reduced capacity particularly at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 16 | The general picture in North Shields is one of some closures with considerably reduced employment levels in most remaining plants caused by a combination of poor trading conditions and productivity gains . |
| 17 | It has succeeded in greatly reducing exchange-rate variability within Europe , and in promoting regional convergence towards low rates of inflation . |
| 18 | The complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary is available in micrographically reduced form at a price which is more readily in the reach of the local historian than that of the multi-volume set . |
| 19 | Kandel argues that the interactions and responses of these neurons to artificially administered neurotransmitters represent , in ultimately reduced form , the memory for the reflex itself . |
| 20 | The aircraft would have crossed this jet stream at a shallow angle which would have resulted in considerably reduced ground speed . |
| 21 | The control unit works in conjunction with the engine management system to momentarily reduce torque and stop the air conditioning compressor while |
| 22 | Since 1953 the United States has been subjected to rapidly reduced lead time on computer innovation , from several years ' lead time in the 1950s and 1960s to zero and lag time in the 1980s . |
| 23 | The breakdown of national pay bargaining in the power industry gives NIE the opportunity to quickly reduce demarcation and improve labour efficiency and gradually bring pay rates employment market . ’ |
| 24 | Extra supplies over and above what has been contracted from Algeria will be necessary over the next decade , partly due to increased demand and partly due to possibly reduced supply from the Netherlands , this contract running out in 1992 . |
| 25 | Colleagues , if this government is so blatantly prepared to sell out its own workers in such a public manner , then there will surely be no limit to the steps they will be prepared to take to further reduce union power . |
| 26 | It was expected to prompt banks and building societies to further reduce mortgage rates , currently averaging just under 12pc . |
| 27 | Thus although eradication of H pylori has been shown to dramatically reduce ulcer relapse rates , we still do not know how H pylori causes ulcers . |
| 28 | The current division of powers between the central Board of Education and the 32 local boards encourages buck-passing ( problems can always be blamed on somebody else ) without either reducing bureaucracy ( the central board still employs almost 4,000 people ) or devolving power to individual schools . |
| 29 | Such half-hearted measures , however , are unlikely to significantly reduce porpoise catches before the stocks collapse . |
| 30 | This together with the increased computational power available , at greatly reduced cost , has made it both technically and economically possible to distribute specialized computing facilities throughout a factory ( or group ) on a network . |