Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] to reduce the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walesa signed a bill to revalue pensions on Nov. 8 , but announced that the law was to be amended immediately to reduce the number of people whose pensions would be cut as a result . |
| 2 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 3 | They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion , though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges . |
| 4 | Thus proposals in the White Paper ( DHSS , 1985b ) were intended instead to reduce the cost of the SERP scheme . |
| 5 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 6 | 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 . |