Example sentences of "[art] way [prep] reducing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 2 | She said that ‘ vicious adherence to market forces ’ as a way of reducing the fleet would drive out the youngest and the best . |
| 3 | No firms mentioned reducing their dependence on skilled labour as a reason for introducing new technology — though a significant minority saw it as a way of reducing labour costs . |
| 4 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 5 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 6 | This is basically a protective action , an attempt to save the eyes from possible danger , but it has also become a way of reducing the unbearable tension of the moment . |
| 7 | Job fractionation is a way of reducing costs of carrying on the work by reducing the skill contribution of the individual who performs it . |
| 8 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 9 | It was selective and not general : it was determined by basic need and not simply as a way of reducing inequality . |
| 10 | It has also been suggested that requiring recourse to an alternative remedy is used as a way of reducing the number of judicial review cases and the strain on the judicial resources available to hear such cases . |
| 11 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries masturbation was often accepted as a way of reducing the excess of semen , based on the principle of body harmony . |
| 12 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 13 | It also intends to set up city technical colleges funded by industry in an effort to increase parental choice , and this is seen as a way of reducing the power of the LEAs . |
| 14 | Quinney ( 1977 ) and Jankovic ( 1977 ) have argued that prison acts as a way of reducing the size of the reserve army of labour . |
| 15 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 16 | JIT is not , therefore , just a way of reducing stock , but implies a commitment to total waste avoidance , removal of bottlenecks and total quality control — i.e. getting the product out as soon as possible and right first time . |
| 17 | ( f ) To support family planning as a health measure in maternal and child health programmes as a way of reducing births that occur too early or too late in the mother 's life , of increasing the interval between births and of diminishing higher birth orders , and by giving special consideration to the needs of those in the postpartum and/or breast-feeding period ; |
| 18 | Spending on defence is a way of reducing the chances of war . |
| 19 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 20 | The tax , part of an emergency budget for 1991 , was originally intended as a way of reducing subsidies on a wide range of consumer prices , to give the government some scope to cut import taxes on raw and semi-finished goods for industry . |
| 21 | While recognising the undeniable ( if somewhat over-stressed ) value of milk in a child 's nutritional development , the Board of Education and Ministry of Health also appreciated that greater milk consumption would be a way of reducing the surplus stocks then being held by producers . |
| 22 | The BMA has already pinpointed cycling as a way of reducing Heart Disease and cancer , so we clearly have grounds for promoting better facilities for cycling for health reasons and not just to reduce accidents . |
| 23 | The government is keen to develop a more environment-friendly approach to road planning and may consider increasing rail services as a way of reducing traffic , according to an announcement by Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 24 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 25 | CREATE a central fund into which all unused allowances from new developments can be fed , to be drawn upon as a way of reducing customer contributions on infill projects . |