Example sentences of "in [noun sg] to reduce the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no rule of law or statutory provision or professional regulation which requires solicitors in partnership to reduce the terms of their agreement to writing . |
| 2 | According to Rowthorn , multinational B 's operating unit in nation state l might be appropriated by the left government and sold off to help provide funds with which to compensate multinational A for the appropriation of its operating unit in nation state 2 ( in order to reduce the chances of direct counter-revolutionary intervention by other states ) . |
| 3 | Vertical equity is the different treatment of different people in order to reduce the consequences of these innate differences . |
| 4 | Even when a governor accepted the assembly 's idea of what was a grievance , his instructions from London limited his freedom of action , usually in the interests of uniformity of imperial policy — one problem was that some American colonial assemblies had Scottish rather than English ideas about divorce and the indissolubility of marriage , but the governors were instructed to veto bills allowing divorce , in order to reduce the difficulties foreseen if each different part of the empire had its own laws about marriage . |
| 5 | In talks on Oct. 10 between the governing coalition parties and the opposition Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's proposals to amend Article 16 of the Constitution in order to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers ( which were opposed by the opposition Social Democratic Party — SPD — as well as by the coalition Free Democratic Party — FDP ) were rejected . |
| 6 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 7 | Irradiation of food does not conform to attempts to cut down the number and scale of radiation emitters in order to reduce the risks of contamination of plant workers and local communities . |
| 8 | Until 1986 , the steeply graded banks of one river in arable country were regularly sprayed with the approved chemical 2-4-D amine , in order to reduce the nettles , which were less good at holding the banks than slow-growing grasses , but for which perfect conditions had been established by abundant nitrogen leaching off the fields . |
| 9 | The intentions behind the important reforms of 1988 were to tighten up the social security system in order to reduce the disincentives to work recognized as inherent in the poverty and unemployment ‘ traps ’ ( see Tables 16.7 and 16 . |