Example sentences of "[verb] to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , 16 per cent of the workforce is jobless , a figure that the town 's development corporation wants to reduce by attracting small , electronics based firms . |
| 2 | In the early 1970's. , there were no 25 seconds between points ( which the ITF wants to reduce to 20 seconds ) or 90 seconds at each changeover , so that will have also reduced playing times per hour . |
| 3 | She has stoutly defended the acquisition , for C$1.8 billion ( $1.6 billion ) , of 50 naval helicopters , while arguing that she wants to reduce the budget deficit . |
| 4 | Anyone with a large plot to maintain , who wants to reduce effort and time spent on regular jobs , such as hedge trimming , will find power tools invaluable . |
| 5 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 6 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 7 | That 's about the national average , but Rover wants to reduce the figure to 3% . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’ |
| 9 | She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’ |
| 10 | Suggestions that Clinton wants to reduce American troops in Europe to as few as 75,000 have also raised eyebrows . |
| 11 | Called NeuFuz4 , it runs under Windows and is claimed to reduce the cost and time needed to implement fuzzy logic because it automatically create a fuzzy system based on desired system inputs and outputs — it enables up to four inputs to create one output , then verifies and codes it for use with NatSemi 's COP8 family of embedded microcontrollers . |
| 12 | It is also claimed to reduce space usage . |
| 13 | Eventually , they were forced to accept some significant wage reductions , although the French invasion of the Ruhr , and the consequent interruption of coal output , plus the American coal strike of 1924 helped to reduce and delay the downward trend of coal prices and the rate of decrease in the wages of coal miners . |
| 14 | This helped to reduce anxiety about having sufficient energy to last through one 's duty period . |
| 15 | Of course we helped to reduce road casualties by removing toads from the road for marking . |
| 16 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 17 | Hayward ( 1975 ) felt that giving patients advance information helped to reduce their anxiety levels during and after treatment . |
| 18 | True , in the country as a whole the reform helped to reduce the proportion of peasant households within the commune . |
| 19 | This , together with renewed growth in National Income , helped to reduce the ratio of government spending to National Income well below its peak in 1982–83 . |
| 20 | Dams helped to reduce river 's flow |
| 21 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 22 | The protected toe area is designed to reduce wear from toe drag . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Design : compact , lightweight cameral with built-in flash unit and a 34mm lens Features : The C625AF camera has five flash modes with two these modes designed to reduce the red eye effect . |
| 25 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |
| 26 | BOCM-Silcock , a feed manufacturer , launched a range of pig rations designed to reduce nitrate pollution from muck on the land . |
| 27 | These later governments have advocated ( if not always implemented ) programmes designed to reduce collectivism , public-sector activity and expenditure , and apparent social dependency , whilst liberating enterprise and encouraging individualism . |
| 28 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | In 1988 , Action for Cities announced the development of a Safer Cities scheme , designed to reduce urban crime . |
| 30 | Whatever the public disclaimers of those in authority , many of the mechanisms set up by the ERA seem to teachers to be specifically designed to reduce themselves as professional people to the status of paid servants , to leave them as little margin for discretion as possible and therefore to reduce ‘ curriculum management ’ to technical trivia : the drawing up of timetables and the efficient disbursement of limited resources . |