Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] reduce the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 2 | Only the coven leaders had contact with each other to prevent infiltration of spies and to reduce the risk of others being incriminated should one of their number be arrested and interrogated . |
| 3 | Pastures can be reseeded , and the quality of livestock increased by breeding programmes , increased veterinary services , improved supplementary feeds and fodder crops , all of which aim to increase yields and reduce the number of stock on degraded and eroded pastures . |
| 4 | This would give maximum publicity to the Lists , avoid individuals having to make special journeys to Council Offices to inspect the Lists and reduce the number of basic enquiries . |
| 5 | If you simply put up but people still have to use their cars to get from A to B you 're not actually improving the environment at all and it seems that adding added habits habits habits er it it seems to me that proposals that we have represented and which create improvement in a number of areas or reduce the cut in a number of areas will actually produce a much more balanced programme for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 6 | A new way of investing in smaller companies that reduces the risks involved is to buy shares in the recently launched Hoare Govett Smaller Companies Index Investment Trust . |
| 7 | Attenuators that reduce the potential difference by a given factor are vastly more common than current attenuators and are often appropriately referred to as potential dividers . |
| 8 | By including bosses you will be improving your chances of inflicting casualties and reducing the number of casualties sustained . |
| 9 | We will abolish unnecessary licences and reduce the need for specific approvals for product design . |
| 10 | Clearly , by tailoring its willingness to accept bills and reduce the stock , the Bank is able to impose whatever rate of interest it chooses . |
| 11 | Use of tumour markers in patients presenting with metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown origin can help localise the probable primary sites and reduce the need for extensive and expensive imaging techniques . |
| 12 | He reminded them that shortly after he became General-Secretary in 1965 , he had revised plan targets for coal output in order to put less strain on the miners and to reduce the risk of accidents at work . |
| 13 | For example , the school day and week were changed to increase the number of periods but reduce the amount of time pupils spent moving around the school between lessons . |
| 14 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 15 | Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others . |
| 16 | A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world , numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool . |
| 17 | The chairman , Henry Sweetbaum , said the profits , which represent a remarkable turnround from a loss of £6.72 million in 1991 , ‘ confirm the progress we have made in developing our retailing activities and reducing the costs of our timber businesses ’ . |
| 18 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 19 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 20 | The third , and most interesting part of the research , is to explain the persistence into the 20th century of large numbers of local and regional designs of agricultural edge-tools and the failure of large manufacturers to standardise their products and reduce the number of lines until after the Second World War . |
| 21 | The second was to do with the design of the machinery to increase job cycle times and to reduce the extent to which work would be machine paced . |
| 22 | Gastro-enterologist consultant Dr John Collins said : ‘ GPs can now send patients with ulcers and indigestion problems up to us directly , bypassing out-patient clinics and reducing the waiting time by several months . ’ |
| 23 | OSF/1 on MIPS customers are mostly policy-led companies who want the operating system to come from an independent source , although there are reasons for changing , according to Stone , including loadable drivers for accommodating new graphics options and shared libraries that reduce the size of the applications . |
| 24 | They frequently attempted to reduce the basic wage of workers and to reduce the cost of living addition which had been paid throughout the war and in the immediate post-war years . |
| 25 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 26 | Develop more supported accommodation in ordinary houses and in hostels and reduce the number of places in long-stay hospitals . |
| 27 | During long days and as many nights , he drew , giving concrete expression to abstract ideas and reducing the results to their fundamentals . |
| 28 | At the same time we had to cut our costs and reduce the numbers to at least ameliorate the losses . |
| 29 | The Chancellor believes that measure alone will give an overall cash flow benefit of nearly £2 billion a year in both the next two tax years and reduce the ACT mountain by £300 million a year . |
| 30 | Under Chapter II , the Regulations also subsumed the 1913 Regulations for Tutorial Classes but reduced the maximum size of classes from thirty-two to twenty-four students . |