Example sentences of "which reduce [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , the movement towards larger sizes ( which reduced capital costs ) and more advanced steam temperatures and pressures ( which increased the amount of useful energy extracted from the fuel used ) had gone together . |
| 2 | The new primacy of the urban interest was marked by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which reduced grain and bread prices . |
| 3 | The ban aimed at eliminating the ivory market , which many conservationists believed was fuelling widespread poaching which reduced Africa 's elephant population from an estimated 1.2 million to 609,000 in the last decade . |
| 4 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 5 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 6 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 7 | United States President George Bush announced on June 27 an " Enterprise for the Americas Initiative " for Latin America and the Caribbean , proposing ( i ) a new investment fund to promote free-market investment , free trade and privatization schemes to which the US government would donate US$100,000,000 and would ask West European countries and Japan to follow suit ; ( ii ) the reduction of the region 's US$12,000 million debt to the USA , on condition that debtor countries adopted International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank approved economic reforms ; ( iii ) Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) grants of up to US$300,000,000 to assist specific reforms to create free-market conditions conducive to foreign investment ; and ( iv ) preferential trade benefits to countries which reduced trade barriers with the long-term aim of achieving a free trade zone across the American hemisphere . |
| 8 | Officials say that nearly three hundred were injured in the storm , which reduced buildings to matchwood . |
| 9 | The questions today revolve not so much around the oblique references made by postmodern appropriation , an approach which reduces art history to a lexicon . |
| 10 | The strategy of creeping networking is most clearly evidenced by Windows for Workgroups , technology that will be standard in Windows NT , which reduces users ' need for rivals ' networking products . |
| 11 | Their manager is " semi-altruistic " in having a utility function unc where W is social welfare ( willingness to pay S , minus factor costs ) and E is effort , which reduces utility . |
| 12 | Yet they would be a much better way of spending money than the present married man 's tax allowance which reduces income tax for all married men , rich or poor , whether or not they have dependants in their households . |
| 13 | Switch to unleaded petrol , which reduces dioxins from exhaust fumes by up to 80% . |
| 14 | Another factor which reduces seasoning time is the modern tendency , because of the existence of efficient glues , to use timber in much smaller sizes , which of course dry more quickly . |
| 15 | China , the world 's third largest pesticide producer after the USA and USSR , claims to have developed a new crop spraying technique which reduces pollution and increases efficiency . |
| 16 | Matchplay II has an integral shockpad which reduces stress on knee and ankle joints . |
| 17 | Four Spanish electricity-generating companies are taking part in a pilot project , funded by the European Community ( EC ) , to produce electricity from coal with a new technology which reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants . |
| 18 | Research shows that lone parents belong to lower income groups which have been hard hit , kept in the poverty trap by changes in benefits and the income support system , which reduces support pound for pound , without compensation for childcare , whenever the woman begins to earn . |
| 19 | Put too much stress on ‘ management ’ , and you are risking creating a sterile managerialism , which reduces management to ‘ the right to manage ’ . |
| 20 | Then you set up a review section which reduces books about famine and war to a star rating for entertainment . |
| 21 | Unless a deal is done which reduces subsidies and makes agricultural trade subject to normal GATT rules , they say they will block progress on freeing trade in services and rewriting international rules governing intellectual property . |
| 22 | This helps it to spin up to speed quickly , which reduces turbo lag and improves that all-important mid-range response , although at the expense of outright potency . |
| 23 | The Delta 170.3 retains the familiar operating features — 20-track programming , full remote control , track time , elapsed time , total disc time and cumulative time displays etc. — but offers a potentially higher performance by the use of a new digital output board which reduces jitter by a factor of three compared with its predecessor ( Arcam make still greater claims in this respect over many standard CD players ) . |
| 24 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 25 | But the pay of their employees is an expense which reduces profits , not a source of demand which realizes them . |
| 26 | VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network . |
| 27 | VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network . |
| 28 | In anticipation of the meeting of the Agriculture Council , will my right hon. Friend re-commit the Government to the search for an equitable basis on which to reduce farm prices within the European Community and worldwide and to reduce trade barriers as well ? |
| 29 | Write in Standard English ( except in contexts where non-standard forms are needed for literary purposes , eg in dialogue , in a story or playscript ) , and show an increasing differentiation between speech and writing , eg by using constructions which reduce repetition . |
| 30 | On the practical level , changes in social policies which reduce women 's claims to maintenance on men but do not recognise that changes in the division of responsibilities for caring between men and women within the family and between the family and the wider community are also required , may in the end be counter-productive as far as women are concerned . |