Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it would be morally wrong to reduce spending at a time when millions depend on it just to survive . |
| 2 | Right this is extremely easy to reduce . |
| 3 | Urban Labour-controlled authorities have also been less likely to reduce their level of education spending in the face of public spending cuts , although their ability to avoid doing so has been diminished , first by rate-capping and now by charge-capping . |
| 4 | They represent significant investment in terms of capital locked within the logistics pipeline and therefore pressure is constantly present to reduce aircraft spare parts held . |
| 5 | There is still much to learn about this family of chemicals and it is obviously prudent to reduce the levels wherever practicable to do so . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 7 | The manufacturers of these products recognise this suggesting it is nevertheless possible to reduce such odours to an acceptable level without neutralising them completely . |
| 8 | And the number is not likely to reduce as the scope of spreads and as we 're offered new technologies , software technologies by vendors . |
| 9 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 10 | ‘ But if that is not sufficient to reduce the deficit as much as you should , then there is no alternative but to raise taxes . |
| 11 | If the foregoing is true , then prejudicing that section of industry which is most likely to reduce the unemployment numbers — the small family businesses — seems ill-advised indeed . |
| 12 | In this section we have seen that it is usually possible to reduce the number of accesses to synonyms by loading first the records most frequently accessed . |
| 13 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Doing away with authorial intention opens the way to doing away with the notion of unitary meaning in the text , since without some evidence about intentions it is usually impossible to reduce even everyday linguistic ambiguities . |
| 15 | Hence , a distribution of dividends from the company 's reserves may be more likely to reduce prices than to support them . |
| 16 | Fourth , it might be more effective to reduce other pollutants , for example those from West German cars . |
| 17 | Yet businessmen said it was far more important to reduce Interest Rates . |
| 18 | The fact that the French system has enabled the National Front and Greens to gain local influence would seem to make a Commission even more inclined to reduce the influence of potential newcomers . |
| 19 | There 's Techno in hardcore and commercial guises , there 's traditional soul singers gone dancefloor in Mass Order , gospel remixed in Sounds Of Blackness , there 's Italian , still popular and always liable to reduce the charts to linguini . |
| 20 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 21 | In confidential papers presented to Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , BNFL argued that it would not be commercially viable to reduce discharges from the Springfields plant . |
| 22 | Therefore , if the wearing of seat belts reduces accidents , it is also likely to reduce the number of kidneys available for transplant . |
| 23 | In the arable sector , it is clearly important to reduce the end price and to ensure that farmers are able to continue to look after the land . |
| 24 | Some forms of dietary fibre , such as that found in oats , vegetables and fruit , are also able to reduce the level of blood cholesterol , possibly in the same way as polyunsaturates . |
| 25 | A range of equipment is now available to reduce this disruption , and falls into three main categories . |
| 26 | In a political system in the later eighteenth century in which political position and parliamentary place were still largely a function of kinship with , or being in client status to , political notables parliamentary seats were frequently uncontested to reduce the role of opinion in the political process and to save money . |
| 27 | He retired only after his sixty-fifth birthday , and it proved quite simple to reduce the engine to efficient silence . |
| 28 | But it was Patel , with a Test bowling average of around 100 to reduce , who both applied the brakes and made England 's top order look fallible . |
| 29 | For example , in considering how much to reduce lead emissions from cars it is not impossible to calculate the marginal social cost of producing cars with anti-pollution exhaust systems and the marginal social cost of cars that use more fuel per mile . |
| 30 | To the extent that the execution of this function may now be inhibited by financial constraints , it is the clear duty of the court to seek redress by whatever method is least likely to reduce the standard and breadth of education . |