Example sentences of "can be reduced [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 possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 3 | This can be reduced to negligible proportions by further development of standardized definitions and statements . |
| 4 | But on the level of epistemology all music is relatively autonomous ; no sound-structures can be reduced to social , economic or ideological determinants . |
| 5 | … 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 … |
| 6 | Instead , we would like to see a clearer indication of the circumstances in which car use can be reduced through different shopping patterns . |
| 7 | Changes can be reduced by good filtration , which will remove ammonia and nitrite , and even nitrate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Corticosteroids have a deleterious effect on bone density that can be reduced by concurrent treatment with HRT . |
| 12 | The difficultly of achieving high-speed random access can be reduced by careful design of the data layout . |
| 13 | 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 . |