Example sentences of "[Wh det] reduce [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The questions today revolve not so much around the oblique references made by postmodern appropriation , an approach which reduces art history to a lexicon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Matchplay II has an integral shockpad which reduces stress on knee and ankle joints . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Put too much stress on ‘ management ’ , and you are risking creating a sterile managerialism , which reduces management to ‘ the right to manage ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network . |
| 17 | VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The second is organicism : that is , Conservatives regard society as ‘ a unitary , natural growth , an organized living whole not a mechanical aggregate ’ , which in turn implies that they are resistant to arguments which reduce society to component parts like classes or atomistic individuals . |
| 21 | What is ‘ against the public interest ’ has , however , never been fully defined , although the emphasis placed on competition as a major theme of economic policy by the Conservative government means that only mergers which reduce competition per se are likely to be investigated . |
| 22 | There are two main sources of measurement error which reduce reliability . |
| 23 | This disciplinary effect of free movement can also set in motion factors which reduce production costs and stimulate improvements in the non-price characteristics of goods and services . |
| 24 | Most people can find cut-price deals which reduce mortgage payments to levels considered acceptable when prices were booming , so the cost of moving is not as severe as high interest rates might imply . |
| 25 | Remuneration packages with payments linked to the achievement of agreed service delivery targets for deprived or underserved populations ; for services which fulfil the objectives of The Health of the Nation or Caring for People ; or for ‘ shared care ’ and other arrangements which reduce dependence on hospital services |
| 26 | Now they are simple GAs-f.e.t.s , equipped with compact Peltier coolers which reduce temperature to the required 80–100°K . |
| 27 | The same logic appears to apply in relation to the housing market , where a doubling of the stamp duty threshold giveth this year what reduced mortgage tax relief next year taketh away . |