Example sentences of "have been to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its answer has been to reduce Dagenham to a single-product plant . |
| 2 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 3 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 4 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 5 | The effect of the changes in origination costs and consumables account has been to reduce pre-tax profit significantly below levels previously reported , in particular in the years 1989/90 and 1990/91 , when the group accumulated heavy origination costs in developing a video sell-through catalogue and product base . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first has been to reduce the rate at which welfare expenditure was increasing . |
| 8 | The second aim has been to reduce the attractiveness and the scope of the welfare state , in order that people begin seeking private or company provision . |
| 9 | The long-term trend has been to reduce the number of inmates per officer . |
| 10 | The overall effect of this hedging activity in recent years has been to reduce the group 's interest charge . |
| 11 | The effect of the recession has been to reduce membership numbers to the level of 15 years ago , with a drop of 10,000 in 1992 , and an even greater proportionate fall in the number of examination candidates . |
| 12 | The extraordinary depth and length of the recession is partly to blame , since one effect has been to reduce wastage rates still further . |
| 13 | In a news conference on Jan. 18 , 1990 , Borja announced that inflation had been brought down to just over 54 per cent in December 1989 after reaching a record 99.1 per cent in March ; a further objective of the administration had been to reduce the accumulated annual inflation rate to 30 per cent for 1989 . |
| 14 | In case D both partner and rest of the world shares have risen therefore it can not be claimed that the effects of integration have been to reduce dependence upon non-partner countries . |