Example sentences of "and [adv] reduce [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 2 | If the motor is operating as part of a position control system the Pull.out torque must be Produced at all speeds ; any surplus of motor torque over load torque accelerates the system to a higher speed and thereby reduces the positioning time . |
| 3 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 4 | But the social-security surplus is having the opposite of its intended effect : in helping the government to evade cutting the deficit , it is reducing national savings , and thereby reducing the country 's ability to support future pensioners rather than increasing it . |
| 5 | We saw Ede working on the building of a dam which would improve the water supply by 900 per cent and thereby reduce the hunger and disease that lakes a toll of half the children up to five , The other side of his work is to build up grass-roots organisations so the campesinos can protect their rights . |
| 6 | Secondly , and more importantly , the fact that some courts get by with comparatively few custodial sentences suggests that it would be perfectly possible for other courts to reduce their custody rates to this level , and thereby reduce the prison population . |
| 7 | The higher demand would raise the market price of the asset and thereby reduce the yield . |
| 8 | Only if all new investment in the firm has to be financed from retained earnings is it possible for an increase in dividends to reduce net investment and thereby reduce the ability of the firm to deliver real income in the future . |
| 9 | It tried to decrease independent expenditures of PACs by repealing existing tax credit , thus making it more efficient to look for small individual contributions and thereby reduce the power of the PACs . |
| 10 | There are factors outside the scope of this book which a tribunal may consider and thereby reduce the amount the employee is awarded . |
| 11 | Retroviruses displaying antibody fragments might also be used to retain the retrovirus in the vicinity of a tumour , and thereby reduce the systemic spread of recombinant retroviruses . |
| 12 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 13 | CSM insists that it did not delay unduly action to reduce Opren dosage in elderly sufferers from arthritis Dr Gemer lists a number of dates on which CSM might have acted earlier — and presumably reduced the toll of sufferers . |
| 14 | Keep a little box of french chalk or talc handy to keep your hands ‘ lubricated ’ so that the skin slides as easily as possible over the handles , and so reduces the likelihood of friction . |
| 15 | This gives the little nest additional stability and so reduces the risk of it being overturned by a gust of wind . |
| 16 | Recombinant schistosome glutathione-S-transferase , which confers only a partial resistance to infection , induces a potent anti-fecundity immune response that dramatically reduces the number and viability of eggs produced by female parasites , and so reduces the risk of transmission and the pathology associated with infection ( A. Capron , Pasteur-Lille ) . |
| 17 | The field behaves as if it had been presented simultaneously with the target display , and so reduces the contrast between target contours and their background ( that is , the target contours will look grey rather than black ) . |
| 18 | On a busy road , though , an extra car adds to congestion and so reduces the benefits other motorists are enjoying . |
| 19 | Knowledge of this fact , together with understanding some properties of our body clock , will enable us to promote adjustment of our clock to the new time zone and so reduce the difficulties of jet-lag . |
| 20 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , for example , Jacques wrote that if only this level of grant could be achieved , something could be done to raise part-time tutors ' fees and so reduce the glaring disparity between the minima of £1 110. 0d. for teaching a WEA Terminal class and £3 10s. 0d. for taking a University Sessional class . |
| 21 | The intention in changing the eating habits of the whole community is to bring the average serum cholesterol levels down and so reduce the overall risk in the population . |
| 22 | Alternatively , farmers could treat plants that act as alternative hosts for the pest and so reduce the number of pests migrating to a susceptible crop . |
| 23 | Higher net search costs ( caused , for example , by a reduction in unemployment benefit ) reduce the reservation wage to RW 2 and so reduce the expected duration of unemployment to Ot 2 . |
| 24 | The fall in national income will lead to a fall in the demand for money which will shift the MD line to the left in Fig. 4.4(i) and so reduce the equilibrium rate of interest . |
| 25 | Miniature tie-clip microphones are ideal for location speech recording , as they can be positioned close to the lips of the speaker and so reduce the pick-up of background noise . |
| 26 | The group is focussing on cutting costs across its business , and has introduced new manufacturing technology to increase capacity and so reduce the need for subcontractors . |
| 27 | Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) . |
| 28 | They prevent contamination to the hands and so reduce the risk of contact diseases . |
| 29 | Would not a policy of clobbering savers with an investment surcharge reduce savings and so reduce the pool of available investment capital for manufacturing industry ? |
| 30 | According to British press reports from Freetown , the Sierra Leone capital , the NPFL forces had penetrated some 150 km inside Sierra Leone by mid-May , and intended to destabilize the country and so reduce the effectiveness of the 10,000-strong Nigerian-led Economic Community of West African States Ceasefire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) force in Liberia . |