Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to reduce [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The bridge was to be broken , more rigs were to be added to reduce the water gaps between them , and the whole thing reassembled within one hour . |
| 2 | Water may be added to reduce the proof to a bottling strength of 80 proof minimum . |
| 3 | He knows as well as we do that there is no guarantee that all the purchases will be made by buy-out teams which , as he said , may reasonably not be expected to reduce the quality of their pension schemes . |
| 4 | The studies did provide evidence that the services could have useful effects on families that might be expected to reduce the risk of child abuse . |
| 5 | Because IPV recipients typically have higher post-vaccination antibody concentrations than OPV recipients , particularly for types 1 and 3 , a combined schedule might be expected to reduce the risk of wild poliovirus infection and spread to susceptible contacts . |
| 6 | Assuming that the contract is not terminated before the end of the contract period and the rate at which charges or expenses will be made in respect of the contract continues unchanged during that period , the deductions to be made in respect of those charges or expenses may be expected to reduce the investment return by an amount approximately equal to that reduction in yield figure . |
| 7 | Assuming that the contract is not terminated before the end of the contract period and the rate at which charges or expenses will be made in respect of the contract continues unchanged during that period , the deductions to be made in respect of those charges or expenses may be expected to reduce the investment return by an amount approximately equal to that reduction in yield figure . |
| 8 | As many types of handicap are caused by accidental injury to the newly born child , preventive efforts can be made to reduce the incidence of these accidents . |
| 9 | The idea that constitutional changes should be made to reduce the power of ‘ demand groups ’ may be objected to on both political and logical grounds . |
| 10 | This can be seen to reduce the coefficient of variation of lifetime income where ( dropping the u subscript ) Where capital and labour endowments are positively correlated , or independent ( corr = 0 ) , this is clearly satisfied . |
| 11 | They say more needs to be done to reduce the noise level from the new section of the M-Forty which was only opened two years ago . |
| 12 | The trend towards tighter state budgets could be exploited to reduce the number of students in some over populated subjects and also to cut back the resources of non-productive researchers . |
| 13 | Mechanisms could easily be incorporated to reduce the chance of name and ethnicity determining the likelihood of being shortlisted , as well as to monitor discrimination . |
| 14 | This additional information can be used to reduce the level of uncertainty in the project , producing the posterior probability of the same outcome . |
| 15 | This additional information can be used to reduce the level of uncertainty in the project , producing the posterior probability of the same outcome . |
| 16 | Finance Minister Alejandro Foxley Rioseco also assured consumers that the country 's excess foreign exchange would be used to reduce the cost of importing more goods . |
| 17 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 18 | Whilst cultural methods might be used to reduce the impact of some insect pests , they are by no means a reliable control and biological control of field pests is no than a pipe-dream at present . |
| 19 | The fund , which was expected to begin operating in 1991 and would be administered by Norges Bank , the central bank , would be used to reduce the dependency on the oil industry by means of foreign investment and investment in non-oil domestic industries . |
| 20 | Such techniques provide both a role-playing and control procedure which can be used to reduce the uncertainty of the proposed design . |
| 21 | The ‘ survival ’ column of Table 10.5 based on current mortality experience , at the time of the calculation , can be used to reduce the fertility figures and give the net reproduction rate |
| 22 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |
| 23 | Any savings accrued by this system could be used to reduce the severity of the means testing , thus reducing the way small savers are currently penalised . |
| 24 | In some cases methods will be employed to reduce the number of animals used in a programme . |
| 25 | or G There are included in the sale the following fixtures and fittings : ( Note : If fittings , etc , are of material value the price should be apportioned to reduce the consideration in the transfer , conveyance or assignment and therefore the stamp duty payable . ) |
| 26 | Some way must be found to reduce the number of synonyms , in order to increase the efficiency of direct retrieval . |
| 27 | The level of checking can be tuned to reduce the number of errors detected . |
| 28 | On a more domestic level , the management of Trust offices and properties will be reviewed to reduce the use of resources such as paper , and potentially harmful materials , such as cleaning chemicals . |
| 29 | Cities and towns are to be encouraged to reduce the use of cars or ban them within defined areas under a European Commission plan to tackle exhaust emissions and improve air quality . |
| 30 | Local governments with high tax rates would be forced to reduce the rate of tax on salt to that pertaining in lower-rate localities , or else lose revenue by seeing their residents travel to purchase salt elsewhere . |