Example sentences of "[pron] can reduce the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a court has sentenced somebody to prison for an excessive length of time , there is already a sentencing council — the Court of Appeal , which can reduce the sentence . |
| 2 | To reproduce them by traditional means has required a special camera which can reduce the photograph to the required size and , at the same time , convert it into a pattern of dots — a process called halftone screening . |
| 3 | There are three types of paper which can reduce the need for fixative or prevent the use of heavy layers . |
| 4 | When working this way , you can reduce the disturbance to the landscape gravel by pouring water from your bucket or hose into a jug , placed on a dinner plate laid on the gravel . |
| 5 | The important stages are 1 — 7 — 8 — 9 : so you can reduce the strategy to Look — cover — remember — write |
| 6 | If you can reduce the pattern to a measurement , then people anywhere in the world will come up with the same result . |
| 7 | ‘ But if you make a spoke of equal thickness in a sleek airfoil configuration , you can reduce the drag coefficient to about 0.06 . ’ |
| 8 | Because part of the problem is that there are too many people in agriculture and if you can reduce the population threshold allowed , right , wages will virtually rise , because labour productivity will rise because there is less labour on the same amount of land . |
| 9 | But you can reduce the risk of this sort of tragedy by following these tips : NEVER hand over cash without getting a receipt saying what it 's for . |
| 10 | This means you can reduce the risk by positioning , say , some Black Orcs between two Orc Boyz Mobs . |
| 11 | You can reduce the risk of damage to your computer simply by treating it with care and respect . |
| 12 | But by leaving yourself a bit of slack it will not be so difficult to get out there and do it because you know you can reduce the numbers without phenomenal pain . |
| 13 | If you can think of any way in which you can reduce the impact of your job on the environment , whether it is minimising or recycling waste , increasing energy efficiency or substituting materials with less hazardous alternatives , then let your manager know . |
| 14 | If you can think of any way in which you can reduce the impact of your job on the environment … let your manager know . |
| 15 | You can reduce the amount of work needed by cutting out the need to manually identify afflicted records , using the following script : |
| 16 | So we can reduce the prices that we have to pay for everything . |
| 17 | Like we can produce , we can reduce the unit cost of car production dramatically by increasing the s increasing the size of the plant , alright , and so even if , this is one reason why we do n't , why street trade has risen dramatically in manufactures , it 's because in manufactures there are powerful erm , economies of scale effects , alright . |
| 18 | Using the ranking ( or confidence ) information for the list of candidate strings , we can reduce the problem somewhat , by trying the standard four error correction approaches on just the top 10 candidate strings . |
| 19 | We can reduce the problem to a one-dimensional one by claiming that the plates are infinitely large . |
| 20 | It 's like , sort of thefts of motor vehicles , we can reduce the theft of the actual vehicle , because there are security devices now to do that , to make it harder and you can not odds somebody coming along the street , throwing a brick through a window and grabbing your cassette out . |
| 21 | If one wants to increase the output of trained social workers or teachers one can reduce the length of their training and dilute its standard , but this will conflict with the need for more specialized staff for the more specialized needs and problems that better services reveal . |
| 22 | One further simplifying approximation is often made : recognising that all rates of change are commonly slow compared with the optical cycle time ( and the wavelength , one can reduce the Maxwell equation to first order ( slowly varying amplitude approximation ) , and also take out the rapidly varying part of P21 setting . |
| 23 | In the case of water , if one is careful , one can " supercool " it , that is , one can reduce the temperature below the freezing point ( O°C ) without ice forming . |
| 24 | However , in a well-maintained aquarium they can reduce the chances of disease . |
| 25 | They can reduce the need for computing . |
| 26 | And it can reduce the business 's ability to meet its commitments . |
| 27 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 28 | It can reduce the amount of water needed to flush a lavatory by 40 per cent — and flushing accounts for over one third of the water consumed in Britain 's homes . |
| 29 | BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that by taking decisions out of the hands of the pilot it can reduce the amount of noise that an aircraft makes . |
| 30 | Animals with much simpler ears and brains than us can reduce the problem further by only responding to very narrow frequency bands . |