Example sentences of "[adv] to reduce [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large mammals also select their environments carefully , and bunch together to reduce surface heat losses . |
| 2 | Although alcohol is undoubtedly excreted in the urine and could theoretically act as an inflammatory agent in a case of urethritis , it is probably enough to reduce alcohol intake rather than cut it out altogether — there have been no convincing scientific trials to show that alcohol consumption delays resolution of urethritis . |
| 3 | However since controls are imposed to achieve specific policy aims ( eg to reduce inflation ) it is clear that prices and incomes policies are more likely in some periods ( eg when inflation is high ) than others . |
| 4 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 5 | ‘ General opinion is that the rate will result in increased tariffs , which under the present economic conditions will serve only to reduce competitiveness , ’ the survey said . |
| 6 | Miliutin had begun not only to reduce expenditure , but also to introduce military personnel to the spirit of post-emancipation society . |
| 7 | Farmers , the country 's biggest water consumers , will be obliged to water crops at dusk or dawn only to reduce evaporation . |
| 8 | It appears therefore that these types of corporate crime serve not only to reduce environment uncertainty but point to resource procurement ( i.e. grabbing more ) as a particularly important organizational source of motivation to commit these crimes . |
| 9 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 10 | Consider dither fish , like large barbs , especially to reduce aggression . |
| 11 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 12 | Enterprises have grown accustomed to using early retirement , not just to reduce headcount , but also to restructure their workforces . |
| 13 | In a letter of intent to the IMF , details of which were released on May 29 , the government had pledged further to reduce inflation to 2 per cent per month for the second part of the year and to achieve the reduction of the fiscal deficit to 1 per cent over the following nine months by further adjustments to public utility prices and controls on public sector wages . |
| 14 | Job rotation involves the systematic movement of employees from one task to another , usually to reduce monotony by increasing task variety . |
| 15 | Though done with the intention of establishing a virile , distinctive presence , the effect is usually to reduce shopping centres to an unprecedented level of blandness and monotony . |
| 16 | Age-specific rates are often calculated as averages over three years , partly to reduce instability of the statistics in older , almost empty , age classes , and partly to obviate problems due to especially bad weather at the end of a year causing early demise of those who would otherwise die the following year . |
| 17 | Improvements are recommended in all of these studies such as shutting doors quietly ( and oiling them when necessary ) ; handling equipment carefully to reduce noise ; muting the alarm systems and telephones ; wearing soft-soled shoes ; providing soundproof covers for computer printout machines ; reducing conversations between staff and talking quietly ; providing earplugs if requested ; isolating ‘ noisy ’ patients from general wards when practicable so that they create the least possible disturbance to other patients — and , as Soutar & Wilson point out , most of these suggestions are simple and inexpensive remedies . |
| 18 | He intends not only to accelerate privatisation but also to reduce state control of ‘ strategic ’ sectors , such as mining and telecommunications . |
| 19 | Some 1,500lb ( 6,800kg ) can be hand-pumped into the weather tank effectively to reduce heel by seven degrees . |
| 20 | Some argue this is because of the decision to adopt sugar-derived alcohol , not solely to reduce oil imports , but also to add a further barrier against new foreigners . |
| 21 | An ingenious approach to handling fonts and type-faces was unveiled last week that is claimed radically to reduce storage requirements , simplify portability and enable users to design their own fonts . |
| 22 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 23 | Other issues given special attention include health and safety , in which has a responsibility for all Courtaulds Coatings plants in Europe , and the environment , where water-borne and high-solids coatings are being used increasingly to reduce solvent emissions . |
| 24 | Whether it is the academics ' interests in the livings that come in the wake of a research career ; or industry 's wish to produce new drugs or insecticides ; or the state 's desire to develop new military armaments or better traffic flows or even to reduce truancy in schools ; these are motivations quite unconnected with the education of students in higher education . |
| 25 | Most people have far too much salt and would do well to reduce salt from major sources such as : salt added in cooking and at table ; tinned vegetables and some convenience meals ( read labels ) ; tinned and packet soups , many sauces and gravies ; salted meats such as bacon ; salted fish . |
| 26 | Greatly increased expenditure was called for , particularly to reduce pupil/teacher ratios and improve unhealthy and unsuitable school buildings . |
| 27 | A highly controversial New Brazil ( Brasil Nuevo ) austerity plan , announced by Collor on March 15 , combined free-market reforms with strong government intervention in order drastically to reduce inflation ( running at an estimated monthly rate of 85 per cent ) and to eliminate a US$31,000 million federal budget deficit . |
| 28 | The impact of the recession in Britain has compelled employers drastically to reduce labour costs at the same time as it has effectively shifted the balance of market strength in their favour . |
| 29 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 30 | by carrying any remaining surplus ACT forward to reduce tax liabilities of future accounting periods . |