Example sentences of "have [been] reduced to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 2 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 3 | But the outright victory Garvey required to keep their championship flame alive eluded them , and the league battle has been reduced to a two-horse race . |
| 4 | Yet the passage quoted above implies a continuing belief in the meaningfulness of literature , and it would be fanciful to conclude from the new narrative 's questioning of realism that the novel has been reduced to a formalistic game , without reference to anything outside itself . |
| 5 | In both all the sensuous elements of the previous years have been banished ; colour has been reduced to a severe combination of browns , dull greens and greys . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | Scottish Members of Parliament has been reduced to the nefarious nine , and now that the Secretary of State for Scotland and virtually every one of that nefarious nine trembles on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout in Scotland , will the Government finally see the sense of coming to the negotiating table and talking about Scottish government ? |
| 8 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 9 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 10 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 11 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 12 | Now her plan to bluff her way through had been reduced to a pitiful shambles . |
| 13 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 14 | Her favourite lamp , a white Art Deco figure of a woman , had been reduced to a neat heap of pottery shards . |
| 15 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 16 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 17 | A peerless champion of his own era , he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers . |
| 18 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 19 | With ITV and long-time sponsors Pearl Assurance switching their allegiance to the attractive invitation meeting in Glasgow last week , the championships have been reduced to a sorry state . |
| 20 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |