Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] to reduce " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the Department of Transport , and in consequence the British Railways Board , maintained a policy of aiming to reduce the PSO so as to reduce the demands on the taxpayer . |
| 2 | The government has also drafted a set of measures to restrain the growth of individual cash incomes so as to reduce demand for goods . |
| 3 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 4 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 5 | If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate . |
| 6 | Britain , the Soviet Union and China could provide supervisors and advisers so as to reduce the American composition of the governing commission . |
| 7 | However , in most circumstances the right decision will be to go ahead and at this point the PRO must , as honestly as possible , judge the merits of his company 's case and , if necessary , suggest ways in which the company might modify its stance on an issue so as to reduce its vulnerability . |
| 8 | Some countries in particular periods have flexible wages and prices which , at times of unemployment , change so as to reduce the real value of wages . |
| 9 | Recently , moreover , as we shall see , the courts have tended to erode and rationalise the rule so as to reduce the ambit of strict liability and to bring the rule more into line with the predominant modern philosophy of no liability without fault . |
| 10 | We welcome the advice that new retail development should be sited so as to reduce the number and length of car journeys and to provide for those who do not have access to a car . |
| 11 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 12 | Colin Urie , of the Operations Section , is looking at ways of increasing cooperation between SCOTVEC and centres so as to reduce delays in certification . |
| 13 | In view of the recent ’ Dispatches ’ television programme , has the Minister conducted an inquiry into how the police , Customs and Excise and the security services work together and how they share information with other countries so as to reduce the hard drugs problem that each and every hon. Member sees weekly in his or her constituency ? |
| 14 | In particular , it was said that the employer was thereby saving on royalties payable to the patentee or licensee of alternative components ; the valve reduced processing costs and disposals of scrap ; output had increased ; and the frequency of employee injury had declined so as to reduce absences from work and claims for compensation . |
| 15 | The real solution therefore is to constri construct an orbital relief road system so as to reduce traffic flows in the towns and to provide scope for implementation of a balanced package of transportation measures within the urban area . |
| 16 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 17 | The plan would make a lot more sense if pedestrian crossing lights were introduced , but co-ordinated with other existing traffic lights from Teviot Place to the bottom of The Mound so as to reduce the number of stop-start cycles required by through traffic . |
| 18 | Some have been accused — rightly or wrongly — of preferring not to sell all their available time rather than to reduce their price , and most areas now follow a practice which can only really work in a seller 's market — ‘ pre-emption ’ . |
| 19 | On other occasions , the Provisionals have been hired by property speculators who wished to buy the bombed site cheaply or to reduce the value of adjacent property preparatory to buying it cheaply . |
| 20 | But TV 's main effect was to change the way in which people used their papers , more than to reduce their use . |
| 21 | Against this background , therefore , it seems we should try to detect prostate cancer early and to reduce mortality by aggressive early management . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |
| 23 | Rationing was introduced on most food items — not to share the burden equally but to reduce consumption so that more foodstuffs could be exported . |
| 24 | Taps and valves are used to control the flow of water through pipes , either to turn it off completely or to reduce it . |