Example sentences of "reduce the [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 The narrow band would reduce the scope for incidental devaluation .
2 Reuters fell 30p to 1,364p in the belief that ACT changes will reduce the scope for dividend increases , stores were generally easier on the absence of consumer incentives in the Budget , and the 0.2 per cent rise in retail sales between January and February , though welcome , was little more than expected .
3 Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population .
4 While , as has been suggested ( 21 ) , formal training courses may not reduce the tendency for young people to leave the industry it nonetheless has the potential to create a workforce more receptive to new ideas .
5 It was intended as a staff information bulletin , and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it .
6 The spending cuts would reduce the bill for an average Band D home in Castle Point by £18 to £625 and in Harlow by £288 to £987 .
7 ( The fact that , as understudy , he was n't giving a performance did not reduce the necessity for the wind-down . )
8 This reflects the fact that with enough technological and/or organisational expertise , you can either greatly reduce the requirements for these inputs , find substitutes , or actually create them de novo .
9 Computers and improvements in communication erm can reduce the requirements for transport .
10 Although tripodding involves an additional operation ( and unnecessary extra work in good weather ) , in high-rainfall areas it will often reduce the need for extra turning and tedding and the risk of crop loss or damage .
11 The ability to communicate cheaply over long distances will reduce the need for workers to commute to offices .
12 There , they would reduce the need for oil products such as kerosene and petroleum gas .
13 It is an inexpensive , simple procedure which could be performed as part of the diagnostic histopathological process and could direct or reduce the need for subsequent imaging procedures .
14 The telephone can reduce the need for personal contacts both at a local and a non-local scale .
15 Distribution of free space — the ability to define empty control intervals where they are required — means that careful planning with a knowledge of the likely distribution of additions will reduce the need for control area splits , and possibly of control interval splits .
16 There are three types of paper which can reduce the need for fixative or prevent the use of heavy layers .
17 The systems will reduce the need for discretionary limits as , if required , policyholders will be able to seek approval for small limits from the computer system .
18 I am advised that if an implant is successful it would reduce the need for medication and would therefore reduce the likelihood of the side effects that may be caused by drug treatment .
19 The development of medical treatment on this basis may reduce the need for surgery , with its associated morbidity and high recurrence rates .
20 They can reduce the need for computing .
21 To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place .
22 Electronic Data Capture ( EDC ) machines can also reduce the work-load for hoteliers and restaurateurs .
23 The reduction in grant levels will considerably reduce the pressure for land improvements .
24 Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price .
25 While the expansion of forestry in Britain ( Table 8.3 ) has had environmental repercussions , as are discussed below , increasing self-sufficiency should at least partially reduce the pressures for the exploitation of tropical forests .
26 Is there also the possibility that the environmental movement will reduce the demand for such forest products in the developed nations by educating the public in the undesirable environmental consequences ( e.g. the enhanced greenhouse effect and the loss of genetic resources ) of overexploitation ?
27 If the authorities raise interest rates , this will reduce the demand for credit and this in turn will reduce the credit that banks create .
28 Where the surfaces of cast-iron columns and other compression members display cracks , these defects need not necessarily reduce the opportunities for re-use of these elements .
29 It may reduce the opportunities for benefiting from economies of scale .
30 He adds that he would be surprised if industry , already hit by the recession , ‘ was not anxious about the prospect of accounting changes , the general effect of which will reduce the opportunities for carrying costs below the line ’ .
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