Example sentences of "way [prep] reducing the " in BNC.

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1 Sainsbury 's works with suppliers to find ways of reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum .
2 Scientists at the ARC 's institute for research on animal diseases , near Newbury , have been working on ways of reducing the risk of spreading diseases with slurry .
3 There are various ways of reducing the amount of milk in the morning feed , and these are worth trying .
4 In British Airways staff and their representatives were offered the opportunity to help generate ideas , and this resulted in very imaginative ways of reducing the cost of employing people without necessarily making them redundant or reducing their income .
5 The need to retain the primacy of the professional advisory function is surely paramount , and the Authority might well wish to find ways of reducing the administrative burden on advisory staff .
6 Many of those proposing changes to the balloting system were opposed to opting out in principle and were really seeking ways of reducing the number of schools withdrawing from local authority control .
7 However , fundamental ways of reducing the size of public expenditure would require the government to find new ways of charging for the services it provides , or to dismantle the Welfare State .
8 The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home .
9 In the following chapters we discuss possible ways of reducing the number of word strings .
10 We shall now look at ways of reducing the potential combinatorial explosion of breadth-first search .
11 Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two .
12 PUBLICANS in Wales are being shown ways of reducing the amount of alcohol their customers drink .
13 ‘ The county and borough authorities are now looking at ways of reducing the danger and congestion caused by buses and our proposals for dealing with this problem will be published later in the year . ’
14 Once that happens council officers would then be able to look at specific ways of reducing the risk of accidents in Darlington and help make the borough a safer place .
15 Readers tend to associate gloss with high cost and , in solving this criticism , we looked at ways of reducing the overall magazine budget .
16 He cited better building regulations on houses and the move to gas-fired power stations as far more effective ways of reducing the use of fossil fuels .
17 She said that ‘ vicious adherence to market forces ’ as a way of reducing the fleet would drive out the youngest and the best .
18 According to Gatfield there is one obvious way of reducing the odds :
19 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 .
20 Little evidence supports your conclusion that ‘ Reducing the number and use of handguns is the surest possible way of reducing the amount of violent crime . ’
21 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 .
22 A further way of reducing the spread of sampling is to use what is called cluster sampling , a device by which sub-units are grouped together and work concentrated on them .
23 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 .
24 Hanging the pump on strong elastic is an additional way of reducing the noise , as well as locating it above the tank 's water level for safety .
25 This is one way of reducing the risks in the scheme .
26 It is certainly one way of reducing the number of vehicles on the road .
27 In chapter two we established that the most effective way of reducing the ambiguity produced by the pattern recogniser is by a lexical look-up which discards candidate strings that are not allowable in English .
28 The part 26-way tree , part linked list method was implemented for comparison purposes , and because it appeared to be a simple way of reducing the amount of memory necessary .
29 Another way of reducing the risk of infection from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases is to use a latex barrier .
30 One way of reducing the marketability of labour was to limit a worker 's property rights in a particular job or skill .
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