Example sentences of "government [verb] reduce [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |
| 4 | Government has reduced the burden of regulation and the need for central bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Over the last few years the t Tory government has reduced the amount of wages inspectors . |
| 6 | ANGRY Darlington dentists will voice their fears over Government plans to reduce the amount it pays them for NHS work in a meeting with the town 's MP tomorrow . |
| 7 | DARLINGTON dentists have met the town 's MP to discuss their concern over Government plans to reduce the amount it pays them for NHS work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The newly elected Conservative government decided to reduce the extent of designated areas , through a programme of phased withdrawals , over the following three years ( see Townsend 1980 ) . |
| 10 | For example , it was claimed that the military government had reduced the infant mortality rate to between 24 and 30 per thousand in the West Bank and 30 per thousand in Gaza , comparing very favourably with the rate , 22 per thousand , for Palestinians in Israel . |
| 11 | If the government wished to reduce the money supply , the Bank of England would sell more securities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |