Example sentences of "[adv] to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large mammals also select their environments carefully , and bunch together to reduce surface heat losses . |
| 2 | Bush reported his assurance to the Soviet leader at Malta that he " support[ed] the dynamic process of reform in the Soviet Union " and that the two countries would " work together to reduce barriers to trade , investment and the free movement of goods and ideas " in order that " the entry of the Soviet Union into the global market [ could ] be advanced " . |
| 3 | Although alcohol is undoubtedly excreted in the urine and could theoretically act as an inflammatory agent in a case of urethritis , it is probably enough to reduce alcohol intake rather than cut it out altogether — there have been no convincing scientific trials to show that alcohol consumption delays resolution of urethritis . |
| 4 | Merely the concept of a non-WYSIWYG desktop publishing program on the Macintosh is usually enough to reduce most people to quizzical silence but such a product does , indeed , exist . |
| 5 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 6 | At sufficiently high frequencies , the capacitive reactance becomes small enough to reduce the magnitude of the input signal delivered from any practical source of finite internal impedance . |
| 7 | However since controls are imposed to achieve specific policy aims ( eg to reduce inflation ) it is clear that prices and incomes policies are more likely in some periods ( eg when inflation is high ) than others . |
| 8 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 9 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which in tandem with Labour could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 10 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 11 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 12 | So , it is not sufficient merely to reduce all Oedipus myths to one , there has to be a retelling in a different form . |
| 13 | It is less easy to see , for instance , how the meaning of a loss such as bereavement could be so readily reinterpreted , or whether such attempts do much to reduce the risk of depression . |
| 14 | ‘ General opinion is that the rate will result in increased tariffs , which under the present economic conditions will serve only to reduce competitiveness , ’ the survey said . |
| 15 | Adequacy of communication is an essential part of nursing , not only to reduce patients ' complaints but to permit nurses to comply with their professional duty to be accountable . |
| 16 | if only to reduce the number of 100 metre ( 330 ft ) round trips up and down a fully paid-out set of lines , which always seems to happen when you are on your own ! |
| 17 | It appears therefore that these types of corporate crime serve not only to reduce environment uncertainty but point to resource procurement ( i.e. grabbing more ) as a particularly important organizational source of motivation to commit these crimes . |
| 18 | Denials had to be issued , if only to reduce the risk of libel . |
| 19 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 20 | Miliutin had begun not only to reduce expenditure , but also to introduce military personnel to the spirit of post-emancipation society . |
| 21 | Farmers , the country 's biggest water consumers , will be obliged to water crops at dusk or dawn only to reduce evaporation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The education chairman , Tom Farrell , said the cuts gave him great pain , but services would be affected worse if the Scottish Office stepped in to reduce spending . |
| 24 | If the mash is beginning to look as if it might be too runny , cook gently to reduce . |
| 25 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 26 | Is n't it better to reduce the price by £6,000 ? |
| 27 | Consider dither fish , like large barbs , especially to reduce aggression . |
| 28 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 29 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 30 | A long-running legal wrangle ensued with Gasco assets ultimately being frozen and a court undertaking secured from St Piran not to reduce its UK assets below £7m , sufficient to cover the SIB claim . |