Example sentences of "[noun] to reduce [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Netherlands Transport Minister , Hanja Maij-Weggen , has launched a campaign to reduce drastically the country 's dependence on the car . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |