Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Wood , the chairman of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Monash University , predicts that the freeze-thaw technique will reduce the number of surgical procedures needed to produce a pregnancy . |
| 2 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 3 | Underlining the importance of dry-cow therapy as a seasonal part of mastitis control , he adds : ‘ Effective use of a product like Orbenin Extra Dry Cow will reduce , or help to maintain , a low cell-count . |
| 4 | It was intended as a staff information bulletin , and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it . |
| 5 | Thus individuals ' social backgrounds will affect their performance in an IQ test , and in particular the deprivations they experience as members of a low social stratum will reduce their IQ score . |
| 6 | A former Labour Prime Minister got that far in his thinking in the 1970s when he pointed out that one could not have high inflation and lots of employment and that high inflation would reduce rather than increase the number of jobs . |
| 7 | Indeed , sickness , ill fortune or even old age could reduce even a former overseer to a needy situation . |
| 8 | It says that , even under a Labour government , hostility to British Gas would reduce competition to the generating companies . |
| 9 | Again , careful handling can reduce many of the problems associated with this temperament , but these traits remain present and may be triggered when the horse is stressed . |
| 10 | Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings . |
| 11 | Swedish employers believed that the greater coordination of negotiations by means of central bargaining could reduce the incidence of industrial conflict . |
| 12 | Telling a man the simple truth could reduce him to a wreck , so that , on the whole , she held her punches and her tongue , knowing how deeply she could wound . |
| 13 | Systemic hypotension may reduce coronary perfusion ; in the CONSENSUS II trial there was an increased incidence of first dose hypotension in the enalapril group ( 10.5% v 2.5% in placebo group ) and mortality was increased in patients who showed this effect . |
| 14 | Very sensitive patients who quickly become over stimulated by or prove the remedy when given in the standard dose can reduce it , next time , by diluting a teaspoonful from the first glass in a second glass of water thus reducing the dose by a factor of about 20 for each glass used . |
| 15 | The need for greater punishment might arise , but correct teaching and training at a very early age can reduce the risk . |
| 16 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 17 | An increase in the real wage will reduce employment and a decrease in the real wage will increase employment . |
| 18 | The method of saving depends on the nature of your graphs , and using the most appropriate way will reduce the amount of repetitive work . |
| 19 | Whilst some of our design work can be contracted out , the recent installation of computer hardware and software dedicated to graphic design will reduce costs after staff have been suitably trained . |
| 20 | The narrow band would reduce the scope for incidental devaluation . |
| 21 | Mr Waddington , who hopes to eliminate prison overcrowding within three years , now appears to be satisfied that other sections of his white paper will reduce the number of less-serious offenders sent to prison . |
| 22 | It is an interesting speculation whether the reintroduction of such draconian legislation might reduce more recent economic problems . |
| 23 | It argues that reforestation on a large scale would reduce biodiversity through damage to wildlife habitats , degrade soils , and lead to the forced resettlement of subsistence farmers . |
| 24 | In the long term , the loss of genetic diversity will reduce the gene pool available for agricultural crops . |
| 25 | Ill health can reduce the individual 's ability to move due to motor or nervous problems . |
| 26 | We your Memorialists therefore pray that your Worshipful Company will reduce the number of scholars to such an amount as will ensure scholars with whom a tradesman 's son ought to associate , leaving others to go to the National Schools . " |
| 27 | This revised route will reduce the severance impact on a number of farms and will enable the road to be better integrated into the existing countryside . |
| 28 | This revised route will reduce the severance impact on a number of farms and will enable the road to be better integrated into the existing countryside . |
| 29 | Even so , integrated management can reduce the farmer 's reliance on pesticides . |
| 30 | The court will not validate a transaction where there are serious doubts as to the company 's solvency , such that continued trading could reduce the value of the assets to the prejudice of the company 's creditors or shareholders , such as by continuing to incur trading losses . |