Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to reduce the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infants suffering these events are more likely to be anaemic , and its correction has been reported to reduce the frequency and severity of both apnoea of prematurity and cyanotic breath holding . |
| 2 | Recently , a high total lipid concentration has been reported to reduce the metastability of bile . |
| 3 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |
| 4 | This generally , occurs because it has been decided to reduce the provisions sought in an estimate , or because it is necessary to take account of the consequences of transferring the functions of one department to another . |
| 5 | For this reason , various attempts have been made to reduce the numbers . |
| 6 | Various strategies have been adopted to reduce the level of expenditure . |
| 7 | It has already been agreed to reduce the conference to one day and to abandon the Sunday morning sessions . |
| 8 | In charting development within the group two samples of boys have been used to reduce the task to manageable proportions . |
| 9 | Aprotinin has been used to reduce the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis following hip surgery . |
| 10 | Under our Safer Cities programme , there are 124 schemes to improve street lighting , which has been shown to reduce the fear of crime significantly . |
| 11 | If only because cardiotocography has been shown to reduce the rate of neonatal convulsions after complicated labours its use should not be abandoned . |
| 12 | Barrier contraception has been shown to reduce the risk of transmission . |
| 13 | In addition , ultrasonographic dating has been shown to reduce the incidence of truly prolonged pregnancy from about 10% to as low as 1% . |
| 14 | A nw but expensive regimen which has been shown to reduce the perinatal transfer of both Ancylostoma and Toxocara larvae is the oral administration of large doses of fenbendazole daily for three weeks before to three weeks after whelping . |
| 15 | Only interpersonal trust has been found to reduce the extreme forms of communication filtering arising from a defensive ‘ me ’ fighting the system , and even trust rarely reduces filtering to zero . |
| 16 | ( Automation , computer systems , and so on , should not have been introduced to reduce the number of staff but to free qualified staff to work directly with the library users . ) |
| 17 | Considerable effort has been expended to reduce the dependence upon written language when this is not the subject matter of the test , for example , in science use is made of oral presentations of questions . |