Example sentences of "to reduce [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here environmental influences again became important , as the early Triassic experienced a drying-out trend that remorselessly began to reduce greatly the number of swamps . |
| 2 | Different approaches to the estimation of utilities for health states generate different values ; this has the potential to reduce greatly the comparability of the six source studies . |
| 3 | As cash reserves fall , the banks may be forced to reduce further the level of bank deposits . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways . |
| 5 | It is , however , plausible to view criminal laws as the outcomes of clashes between groups with structurally generated conflicting interests , and to argue that the legislators ' intention , or if that is too conspiratorial , then the law 's latent function , is to provide the powerful with a resource to reduce further the ability of some groups to resist domination . |
| 6 | In addition eight nuclear power stations are planned to reduce further the need for oil fired stations . |
| 7 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 8 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 9 | He said that the consumer electronics division intended to reduce sharply the range of products offered . |
| 10 | The continuing recession and reduced consumer spending worldwide affected Group revenues in 1992 In parallel , the Board continued with its determination to reduce substantially the cost base in both the Waterford Crystal and Wedgwood Group businesses . |
| 11 | In particular the central committee had been deprived of its ultimate power to dismiss the general secretary or the full politburo ( since the majority of politburo members sat ex-officio ) , while the composition of the politburo was likely to reduce drastically the frequency of its meetings . |
| 12 | The effect of Japanese competition in some industries in the past has been to reduce drastically the size of those industries and in some cases ( eg motor cycles ) virtually eliminate the industries altogether . |
| 13 | The Netherlands Transport Minister , Hanja Maij-Weggen , has launched a campaign to reduce drastically the country 's dependence on the car . |
| 14 | Forty-one Japanese and US companies operating in Thailand have agreed to reduce drastically the amount of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) they use . |
| 15 | Transracial adoption was also encouraged by developments in child care practice designed to reduce dramatically the number of children living in institutions , of whom a disproportionate number were and still are black ( Raynor 1975 ; Rowe and Lambert , 1970 ) . |
| 16 | It was confirmed on July 3 that the government intended to reduce dramatically the number of resident Palestinians . |
| 17 | Kent County Council in the UK was the first beta test site for the new Unix versions and says that the new products enable it to reduce significantly the unit costs of functions such as paying invoices and processing journals . |
| 18 | The vast illegal drugs trade continued to have a major economic impact , and government programmes in Peru and Bolivia designed to reduce significantly the growing of coca caused great internal controversy . |
| 19 | What can be done to reduce significantly the volume of killing , maiming , and economic deprivation caused by corporate crime ? |
| 20 | At most , five people per thousand contract leprosy , so hundreds of thousands must be vaccinated to reduce significantly the number of cases . |
| 21 | The effect of this is , for instance , to reduce considerably the number of words , or even letters , visible within the field of the lens . |