Example sentences of "reduction in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pilot is aware that the glider is stalled , applying the opposite rudder at the same time as moving forwards on the stick should result in some reduction in the yawing movement towards the dropping wing , and therefore must be a good thing . |
| 2 | ( I am leaving aside phenomena such as accommodation , whereby a constant stimulus when sustained may activate the nervous system progressively less intensively , with a corresponding reduction in the perceived intensity of the stimulus . |
| 3 | At this point the voltage drop across the emitter followers also increases causing a sudden small reduction in the available square wave voltage , which persists until the signal reverses . |
| 4 | It is done on a 12-week cycle and will lead to a reduction in the cost for a producer with , say , 60 hens , to about £24 over the laying period . |
| 5 | A central part of the claim was a reduction in the working week from 39 hours to 35 , to coincide with a similar demand by the leaders of two million engineering workers who are conducting strike ballots at key sites . |
| 6 | The cuts , equivalent to a 2p reduction in the basic rate of income tax , are expected to replenish some of the consumers ' depleted ammunition . |
| 7 | In a fortnight 's time , when the company replies to a call for a substantial increase in pay and a reduction in the working week , John Hougham , personnel director , will probably throw that philosophy back at him . |
| 8 | It also calls for reduction in the amount of pollution , greater protection and planting of trees and easier access to greenspace . |
| 9 | In line with the government 's objective there was a reduction in the top ( from 83 to 60 per cent ) and standard rates of income tax ( from 33 to 30 per cent ) in the 1979 budget , and a shift to indirect taxes . |
| 10 | In July 1987 Mr Lawson unilaterally announced a reduction in the meetings of the tripartite NEDC from ten to four meetings annually and in January 1989 the Secretary of State for Employment announced that the TUC would no longer be the sole body which could nominate trade unionists to the Training Commission and other official bodies . |
| 11 | The reduction in the number of Cabinet meetings ( 45 — 50 per annum , about half of the post-war norm ) , and of Cabinet papers ( 60 — 70 , or one-sixth of the figure in the 1950s ) , and the appointment of fewer Cabinet committees have reduced the opportunities for collective deliberation . |
| 12 | It is reasonable to associate a number of distinctive policies with the presence of Mrs Thatcher — the economic strategy , attempts to contain the public sector , toleration of high unemployment , reduction in the powers of trade unions , privatization , the vigorous prosecution of the war in the Falklands , the community charge , education reforms , change in the civil service , and Britain 's refusal to join the EMS . |
| 13 | Libertarians want a drastic reduction in the interventions of the state , not only in the economy but also as a social regulator , so that opportunities for both personal choice and the free-market economy are maximized . |
| 14 | As with education these interventions and the reduction in the role of producers and local government spokesmen have usually been made in the name of promoting value for money and increasing choice for consumers . |
| 15 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 16 | The growth of private home-ownership and car-ownership , reduction in the number of voters dependent on council housing , expansion of self-employment ( up from 1.9 million to 3 million between 1979 and 1989 ) and of employment in the private sector , and a fall in the public-sector employment , may also work against the party . |
| 17 | These include the reduction in the legal immunities and rights of trade unions , rejection of formal incomes policy , and the tripartite style of decisionmaking , according priority to the abatement of inflation , even with unemployment at over three million , privatization of state industries and services , changes in the framework in which many public services are carried out , interventions in local government structure and imposition of far-reaching controls over its finance , changes in the welfare state , and open hostility to the civil service and large parts of the public sector . |
| 18 | He refused to allow the party access to his fund , and partly for this reason the Liberals were forced to accept a drastic reduction in the number of candidatures , from 513 in 1929 to 112 in 1931 , The condition of the Liberals was far more serious than that of Labour , for the Liberal party was beginning to lose its sense of identity and purpose ( and has still not fully recovered it ) . |
| 19 | It can be argued that the increase rather than the reduction in the need for aid is due to a series of weaknesses in its composition and nature . |
| 20 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 21 | ATWO-HOUR reduction in the working week , from 39 to 37 hours , has been negotiated for 3,000 North-east workers in the most significant break in the engineering strike since it began a fortnight ago . |
| 22 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 23 | Today , weeds are responsible for a 12 per cent reduction in the world 's harvests . |
| 24 | SOUTH Africa is to cut national service for young whites by half , as part of a reduction in the country 's reliance on the military establishment . |
| 25 | One is the requirement that contracts in the independent sector should go from now on ( except in ‘ exceptional circumstances ’ and subject to minimum standard requirements ) to the highest bidder : the other is the reduction in the programme obligations which at present safeguard the claim of minority programmes to television time . |
| 26 | SOUTH Africa is to cut national service for young whites by half , as part of a reduction in the country 's reliance on the military establishment . |
| 27 | Improvements in certain allowances were made , described as divisive by the unions , but the company has refused to compromise on a reduction in the shorter working week . |
| 28 | One of the consequences of the 1988 drought was a sharp reduction in the set-aside programme . |
| 29 | The same cut could be achieved with a 100 cc reduction in the size of engines . |
| 30 | In considering policies for the protection of British interests outside Europe , the Chiefs of Staff envisaged a reduction in the very large forces deployed in the Middle East , provided a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty could be successfully concluded in 1952 as the Foreign Office was confidently expecting . |