Example sentences of "[vb pp] to reduce [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also claimed to reduce space usage . |
| 2 | In a safety initiative designed to reduce accidents in the home , the Kitchen Specialists Association ( KSA ) has launched a new booklet — Greater Safety in the Kitchen — which highlights some of the more common causes of accidents in the home and offers advice on how to avoid mishaps in the first place . |
| 3 | In January 1983 , however , the High Court ruled that the GLC had power to launch a similar plan designed to reduce London Transport fares by 25 per cent . |
| 4 | The first , with which we are not primarily concerned , is by undertaking jurisdictional , procedural and administrative reforms , as recommended by the Civil Justice Review , which are expressly designed to reduce delay , cost and complexity . |
| 5 | After all , the planning policies of the earlier postwar period were explicitly designed to reduce congestion and overcrowding in these areas by decanting lower-paid people to the New Towns and redeveloping the inner areas at lower density . |
| 6 | The package was designed to reduce expenditure by 30,000 million kronor in the financial year to June 30 , 1993 , to cut a deficit which was otherwise expected to reach 160,000 million kronor ( US$1.00=5.9855 as at Nov. 16 , 1992 ) . |
| 7 | With losses in the second quarter reduced to $0.8m ( 1992 : $5.4m loss ) , General Accident 's property services operation produced a substantially lower deficit at the half year of $4.5m ( 1992 : $9.9m loss ) as measures designed to reduce operating costs continued to take effect . |
| 8 | Losses in connection with General Accident 's property services operation were down from $4.5m to $3.7m , as measures designed to reduce operating costs began to take effect . |
| 9 | My Lords and Members of the House of Commons My Government will pursue , within the framework of the Exchange Rate Mechanism , firm financial policies designed to reduce inflation further and maintain the conditions necessary for sustained growth . |
| 10 | The Gracious Speech also refers to ’ policies designed to reduce inflation further ’ . |
| 11 | The loans constituted the core of an 18-month economic stabilization programme designed to reduce inflation and to ease the balance of payments deficit . |
| 12 | The deal , which was designed to reduce inflation , was the latest in a series of accords between the ALP government and the trade union movement . |
| 13 | These later governments have advocated ( if not always implemented ) programmes designed to reduce collectivism , public-sector activity and expenditure , and apparent social dependency , whilst liberating enterprise and encouraging individualism . |
| 14 | With proper management it should be possible to produce denser belts specifically designed to reduce noise . |
| 15 | Until recent changes in the structure of the civil service , designed to reduce barriers between the various grades and to stress the importance of many of the managerial roles played in connection with policy implementation , it was possible to draw a fairly clear distinction between the ‘ administrative class ’ , containing the ‘ higher ’ civil servants responsible for policy , and the rest of the civil service . |
| 16 | Your comments on royalty in NI 211 ( Classic ) seem designed to reduce respect for our monarchy . |
| 17 | The second function is legitimization which involves expenditure by the state on social expenses , or projects and services required to maintain social harmony ( e.g. welfare , designed to reduce tension among employees ) . |
| 18 | We control the pay round , the pay round increase in Pearson was less than three percent a a and we 've continued with capital expenditure designed to reduce costs . |
| 19 | They must , at the same time , provide some immediate help to the main sufferers , particularly the unemployed , and take measures designed to reduce unemployment by investment in those areas which can produce some reduction in unemployment . |
| 20 | The package , which included an ambitious capital works and infrastructure programme , was designed to reduce unemployment from its current level of 11 per cent to 10 per cent by mid-1993 . |
| 21 | BOCM-Silcock , a feed manufacturer , launched a range of pig rations designed to reduce nitrate pollution from muck on the land . |
| 22 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |
| 23 | Minimal packs : Some packaging is designed to reduce waste during manufacture . |
| 24 | The European Commission on May 13 approved proposals for an energy tax designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 25 | The European Commission on May 13 approved an energy tax designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 26 | During the next 18 months the cereals regime of the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) is due to be reassessed by the Council of Ministers and there is a widespread conviction within the agricultural industry , and among its observers , that the present system will be replaced by one designed to reduce cereal output . |
| 27 | Masterman 's systematic comparison of the two narratives indicates how some aspects of commentary were modified to reduce evidence of bias revealed by comparisons with ITN 's almost simultaneous broadcast . |
| 28 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 29 | Some of the risk factors identified , such as the work characteristics , could be modified to reduce sickness absence . |
| 30 | Furthermore , a high biliary concentration of total protein is reported to reduce bile metastability . |