Example sentences of "[adv] reducing [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has succeeded in greatly reducing exchange-rate variability within Europe , and in promoting regional convergence towards low rates of inflation . |
| 2 | Asset backed bonds , usually secured against pools of illiquid loans , offer financial institutions a means of removing assets from their balance sheets and thus reducing capital requirements ; but such securitisation can also be seen as a tool which facilitates the separation of the loan origination and funding function of banks . |
| 3 | Disodium ethyl diaminotetracetic acid ( diNaEDTA ) is an even more subtle etching agent : it has a chelating ( complexing ) action with comparatively little effervescence , thus reducing gas bubble damage of delicate structures . |
| 4 | The tongued and grooved joints , in addition to allowing concealed fixing with neat joint lines and removing the need for grouting , negate the need for special skills thus reducing installation costs . |
| 5 | Use of marginal areas for grass production and channels for Justicia culture effectively enlarged the land base for the population , thus reducing population density from 34 to 19 persons per hectare of agricultural land . |
| 6 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 7 | The aid was part of a package drawn up by the responsible EC Commissioner , Abel Matutes Juan , as part of the EC 's contribution to economic development in the region ( in particular by creating jobs and thus reducing emigration pressures ) and of its efforts to stimulate the political dialogue with Arab countries and Israel . |
| 8 | Take up of set-aside and ever reducing fertiliser usage might satisfy some of the requirements of the directive in time but Mr Buchan said he hoped that farmers would take urgent note of the board 's action and start planning ahead . |
| 9 | The effect of gradually reducing lung area is not an absolute , all-or-none effect on survival . |
| 10 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 11 | The dashed line can be used to decompose this price effect into an income effect 13 ( reducing work effort ) and the substitution effect of the lowered compensation for each hour of work , 32 ( also reducing work effort ) . |
| 12 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |
| 13 | The use of herbicides is also reducing plant variety in fields , and therefore also insects present . |
| 14 | Hence reducing film output by 1 unit and transferring the labour thus freed to the meals industry would increase the output of meals by 2 units . |
| 15 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association told us that in the experience of the smaller finance houses , chain stores and larger retailers who are members , this is clearly reducing payment problems ( thus making credit cheaper for their customers than it might otherwise be ) . |
| 16 | All sections of British society were clearly reducing family size — though for varying reasons if one accepts Angus McLaren 's analysis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This need not mean drastically reducing food intake . |
| 19 | Similarly , someone who is primarily in a bulimic phase of the disease may binge on lettuce or on other foodstuffs that have particularly low calorie value and weight-producing potential or may even control body weight by dramatically reducing fluid intake . |
| 20 | Reducing the PSBR must involve either reducing government expenditure or raising taxes , or some combination of the two . |
| 21 | Bile salts are important buffers for calcium ion , which may act to reduce free calcium ions ( Ca 2 + ) in the bile thereby reducing calcium lithogenicity . |
| 22 | The process was helped by the so-called ‘ automatic stabilisers ’ — the tendency for taxation to increase faster and public spending at a slower rate in a boom , thereby reducing government borrowing , and vice versa in a recession . |
| 23 | However , although the sale of a nationalised industry will provide a once-off boost for government finance , it should not be forgotten that the profits of the company , once privatised , will thereafter accrue to the private shareholders and not to the government , thereby reducing government revenues in the future . |
| 24 | Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning . |
| 25 | Another possible explanation is that , while time limits may provide one standard of excellence , the attention which they focus on the speed of work diverts attention from the possibility of doing work which is creative or innovative , thereby reducing achievement incentive . |
| 26 | these parties were committed to the continuance of a free market economy by concentrating on combating inflation and a spiralling deficit , speeding up the privatisation of state enterprises , thereby reducing state bureaucracy , and the steady reduction of the trade barriers and import tariffs . |
| 27 | Some large securities firms have withdrawn from options market making due to inadequate returns thereby reducing market liquidity further , leading to less competitive quotes and irregular updating of prices . |
| 28 | Among the various trade and co-operation agreements signed in 1990 , the most important were ( i ) an agreement signed with the United States on April 9 which granted Czechoslovakia most-favoured-nation status , thereby reducing tariff levels for Czechoslovak exports to the United States ; and ( ii ) a 10-year agreement with the EC signed on March 23 which would eliminate quotas for Czechoslovak industrial exports to the EC by 1995 and facilitate the transfer of EC expertise to many sectors of the Czechoslovak economy . |
| 29 | The sample was then purified by using diatoms and guanidinium thiocyanate , but the procedure was adapted by washing only once with each reagent , thereby reducing cross contamination and still abolishing sample inhibition . |
| 30 | Even after the adoption of prerecording , ‘ cut keys ’ were still used , the artist being encouraged to carry on acting in character until the prompt was given , thereby reducing editing time . |