Example sentences of "can be reduce [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It points out that if pesticide use can be reduced with minimal reduction in crop yields , risks to health and the environment can be cut , sustainability promoted and lower input costs protecting profit margins . |
| 2 | The ideas that are antagonistic to the global capitalist project can be reduced to one central counter-hegemonic idea , the rejection of the culture-ideology of consumerism itself . |
| 3 | The school 's values can be reduced to one rule , says the head ; do to others as you would have them do to you . |
| 4 | Secondly , the three constants of 0.240 x 2.576 x 0.000252 can be reduced to one , to wit 0.0001557 , saving a bit on the mathematics when it comes to selecting your seaside donkey and assuming that the EC has n't banned them yet . |
| 5 | Any quadratic form can be reduced to such a canonical form by suitable linear transformations ) . |
| 6 | The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 7 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |
| 8 | This can be reduced to negligible proportions by further development of standardized definitions and statements . |
| 9 | Your probationary period can be reduced to 6 months if you have demonstrated that you fully meet the requirements in terms of performance , conduct , attendance and timekeeping . |
| 10 | And , although I agree with the author that the Shaw-Mohler equation is characterised by ‘ its utter simplicity ’ , it seems a little brutal to derive it in a page of text by introducing 11 variables , when the equation itself can be reduced to three . |
| 11 | But on the level of epistemology all music is relatively autonomous ; no sound-structures can be reduced to social , economic or ideological determinants . |
| 12 | … flows of capital investment , population , technological information , generated energy , water , and the like , together with such constraints as involve interest policies and the mechanisms of group decision-making , can be reduced to comparable units so as to be structured into energy linkages similar to those of ecosystems is clearly an illusion … |
| 13 | Instead , we would like to see a clearer indication of the circumstances in which car use can be reduced through different shopping patterns . |
| 14 | Incomes policies are often presented as a preferable alternative to deflation since inflation can be reduced without higher unemployment . |
| 15 | Changes can be reduced by good filtration , which will remove ammonia and nitrite , and even nitrate . |
| 16 | Again , these diseases can be reduced by preventive activity as both are strongly linked to smoking behaviour and , to a lesser degree , to other lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise . |
| 17 | Conditions that increase sensory input like severe cystitis and urinary tract infections will encourage frequent micturition , emotionally stressful events can reduce inhibition , and bladder sensation can be reduced by deep sleep or events that preoccupy the child like play or worry ( Schmitt 1982b ; Yeates 1973 ) . |
| 18 | For every pound of apples eaten , the cholesterol level can be reduced by one per cent . |
| 19 | Unrealistic assumptions are being made about the extent to which — and the speed with which — the need for hospitals can be reduced by technological advance and improvements in primary care . |
| 20 | Corticosteroids have a deleterious effect on bone density that can be reduced by concurrent treatment with HRT . |
| 21 | The difficultly of achieving high-speed random access can be reduced by careful design of the data layout . |
| 22 | Such uncertainty can be reduced by strict contractual agreements , but the danger , for example , of late deliveries interrupting the flow of production is still greater than it would be if the firm expanded in-house production . |
| 23 | If some departure from the optimal velocity profile can be tolerated , the potentially high costs of additional store can be reduced in two ways : ( a ) the acceleration delay values can be used , in reverse order , for deceleration , ( b ) an approximate recursion formula may be devised , so that each delay value can be calculated from a limited number of previous values . |
| 24 | Furthermore , intervention programmes aiming to reduce the level of expressed emotion among relatives high on this index , or alternatively to reduce their level of face-to-face contact , have shown that relapse rates can be reduced in this way ( e.g. Leff et al. , 1982 ; 1985 ; Falloon et al. , 1982 ; and see chapter 9 ) . |