Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to reduce [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As cost was the most important consideration of port users when determining port of call and as labour costs typically account for 60 to 70 per cent of operating costs , employers have sought both to reduce the size of their workforces and improve the utilisation of the labour that remains . |
| 5 | For , it is obvious from the arson attack that there will be trouble is the travellers are not moved immediately to reduce the tension . |
| 6 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |
| 9 | Thus proposals in the White Paper ( DHSS , 1985b ) were intended instead to reduce the cost of the SERP scheme . |