Example sentences of "proposal to reduce [art] " in BNC.

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1 We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high .
2 In addition , there has been strong support for the proposal to reduce the scope for intimidation and fraud by requiring strike ballots to be conducted by post and to be subject to independent scrutiny .
3 The paper was , however , limited in scope , since it was felt that there were major changes in higher education ahead — the James Committee on Teacher Education was sitting , for example — and the items most prominent in the document were a proposal to reduce the amount of paper work for renewals of course approval , and the possibility of delegating authority for the registration of MPhil students .
4 The Police Federation has made it clear that any proposals to reduce the age of consent would be vigorously resisted .
5 In 1985 , the Government responded to , among other things , this creative accounting by proposals to reduce the flexibility in accounting regulations .
6 It is also true of the proposals to reduce the powers of the Council of Ministers .
7 We welcome the proposals to reduce the super-power arsenals .
8 First , it enables us to take stock of the further dramatic proposals to reduce the nuclear threat between east and west since the START agreement in July .
9 The announcement was followed on the same day by the presentation to the Netherlands parliament of proposals to reduce the country 's troop levels in West Germany by 750 ( out of a total of 5,500 ) between 1991 and 1992 .
10 The plan , which built on the 1988 Vienna Convention against drug trafficking [ see also p. 36780 ] , contained proposals to reduce the growing of coca and poppy plants in the Third World by developing alternative legitimate exports and guaranteeing these products access to international markets .
11 In January 1990 his team of economic advisers , led by Economy Minister Zélia Cardoso de Mello , put forward proposals to reduce the monthly rate of inflation to 5 per cent by June 1990 without recession or reduction of real wages and in accordance with the electoral programme [ for formal introduction of austerity plan in March see p. 37312 ] .
12 A conference attended by 200 delegates unanimously supported a motion calling on ministers to scrap proposals to reduce the annual multi-million pound arts budget .
13 I refer to the article by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn ( ‘ The wronged losing the right to redress , ’ 4 March ) concerning the Government 's proposals to reduce the financial eligibility limits for legal aid .
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