Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] to reduce the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Budget the Chancellor proposed to reduce the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 2 | True , in the country as a whole the reform helped to reduce the proportion of peasant households within the commune . |
| 3 | South Tees workplace health spokeswoman Anne Newnam said the charter aimed to reduce the death rates from coronary heart disease . |
| 4 | The Trades Unions themselves were not necessarily pleased with ‘ co-determination ’ since the policy tended to reduce the Union 's role and make workers less militant , but co-determination showed that all classes in Germany could share in the benefits of the ‘ social market ’ , helped create good industrial relations and reduced the danger of deep class-based divisions between the CDU and SPD . |
| 5 | To apply that principle here : suppose the corporation proposed to reduce the number of taxicabs from 300 to 200 , it would be their duty to hear the taxicab owners ' association : because their members would be greatly affected . |
| 6 | If the government wished to reduce the money supply , the Bank of England would sell more securities . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State recall the letter sent by Mr. Ian MacGregor , the former chairman of the coal board , to every miner in June 1984 , which described as ’ absolutely untrue ’ the claim by mine union leaders that the Government planned to reduce the number of working pits to under 100 ? |
| 8 | In the 1960s the government sought to reduce the animist religious confusion in the nation — and centralize its own authority by abolishing the practice of all but five officially sanctioned religions . |
| 9 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |
| 10 | If the Government wanted to reduce the number of obstacles that prevent prosecution of offenders , thereby making convictions more certain , they would alter the mens rea principle under section 12(1) of the 1988 Act and import the term ’ knowing or believing ’ from section 22 of that Act . |
| 11 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |