Example sentences of "[adv] as 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 | The question had to be asked : could the purchase of new trains produce savings sufficient to cover the cost of servicing their capital costs as well as reducing the burden on the PSO ? |
| 19 | But the additional security , to be introduced at all international shows , is clearly aimed at stamping out that method of encouraging horses to jump clean — as well as reducing the possibilty of them being nobbled . |
| 20 | According to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz , architect of the new economic plan , between 10 and 20 per cent of the 7m-strong Polish workforce stand to lose their jobs through cutting inefficient industries as well as reducing the army and police . |
| 21 | Less advertising spending makes the media conglomerates that are the most likely bidders poorer , as well as reducing the value of the franchises themselves . |
| 22 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 23 | A compress is a valuable way of treating muscular pain , sprains and bruises as well as reducing pain and congestion in internal organs . |
| 24 | As well as reducing the control problems which beset British secondary schools , and overcoming some of the difficulties of ‘ secondary transfer ’ , this mode of organisation must also strengthen the relationship between parents and schools . |
| 25 | The prototype Safe Driving System by Mazda of Japan is designed to help motorists , as well as reducing fuel consumption and air pollution . |
| 26 | The system is designed to make large documents such as technical manuals easier to research , share and modify , as well as reducing the amount of storage space required . |
| 27 | In particular , did the regime permanently change their patterning of sleep , as well as reducing their sleep requirement by over an hour ? |
| 28 | As well as reducing some sophisticated philosophies down to some fairly crude statements , we have probably also given the impression that penal systems ‘ in the real world ’ at different stages in history possess a consistency and coherence that is in fact largely lacking . |
| 29 | As well as reducing efficiency , it will also have reduced equity . |
| 30 | As well as removing slime , algae , dirt and other contamination , the service enables water treatment programmes to operate efficiently , as well as reducing the risk of infections , prolonging the effective life of cooling towers , pipes and ductwork , and cutting the risk of fire in ducting caused by accumulated fluff . |