Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] reduce the " in BNC.

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1 The narrow band would reduce the scope for incidental devaluation .
2 Carl Wood , the chairman of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Monash University , predicts that the freeze-thaw technique will reduce the number of surgical procedures needed to produce a pregnancy .
3 Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings .
4 Is there also the possibility that the environmental movement will reduce the demand for such forest products in the developed nations by educating the public in the undesirable environmental consequences ( e.g. the enhanced greenhouse effect and the loss of genetic resources ) of overexploitation ?
5 Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ .
6 And financial assistance available in the new area may reduce the cost of rent , capital equipment , etc. further .
7 Yet new approaches to treatment of incontinence , for example , mean that many people can learn to cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease .
8 Unless there is a well-trained intelligence to begin with , the continual performance of a single task will reduce the man to the level of a machine … the employer does not want a mere machine …
9 An interim regime could reduce the role of the PDPA but the USSR has not made the establishment of an interim government a precondition of a settlement .
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