Example sentences of "reduce to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AFRC also reduced to 10 years ' imprisonment the life sentences of three others . |
| 2 | To avoid having three months each of 31 days occurring in succession , September and November were each reduced to 30 days and October and December were each raised to 31 . |
| 3 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 4 | Stripped of its grammatical appendages and reduced to lexical essentials this appears as three words : |
| 5 | With the ALP reduced to 26 seats , the new government , led by Jeff Kennett , possessed the largest legislative majority in the state 's history . |
| 6 | The crew of the explosive blockship HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked-back stacks to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer . |
| 7 | Gerald was reduced to infantile tactics . |
| 8 | Whole circuits are reduced to small slivers of material , measuring a few millimetres across , and the number of components and whole circuits that can be put on each chip is increasing each year . |
| 9 | The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 10 | Compulsory admission for treatment ( section 3 ) is possible , but the conditions are now more stringent than formerly and the periods of initial and subsequent detention have been reduced to six months , a further six months and then for one year at a time , and the patients ' rights of appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal have been strengthened . |
| 11 | Because of the growing expense of the festival , this year 's event is reduced to six days , opening traditionally on the Friday , but ending the following Wednesday . |
| 12 | The level will be reduced to 100 kilowatts ( KW ) in April 1994 , effectively putting on the market supplies to some 40,000 to 50,000 more industrial and commercial customers , and it will be abolished altogether by April 1998 . |
| 13 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 14 | But I 'm reduced to verbal inanities , he thought . |
| 15 | The US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 stated that : ‘ … it shall be the immediate goal that the incidental kill or serious injury of marine mammals permitted in the course of commercial fishing operations be reduced to insignificant levels approaching zero morality . ' |
| 16 | They are not to be reduced to mere puppets responding to influence from below . |
| 17 | So religions , symbolic systems , and ideologies develop a metaphysical life of their own and acquire qualities which stubbornly resist being reduced to mere reflections of the social order . |
| 18 | This primitive style of discourse , in which complex issues are reduced to simple polarities , was a powerful and persistent feature of English primary education at the start of PNP . |
| 19 | Reduced to simple terms , those with the power have inadequate knowledge , those with the knowledge have inadequate power . |
| 20 | Thus , ‘ mental illness ’ was seen as a label by which genuine human responses to oppressive social conditions were reduced to mental faults , requiring technical ( in this case medical ) solutions ; for a while the ‘ new deviance ’ attempted to incorporate writers as different as R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz from what was temporarily known as ‘ anti-psychiatry ’ . |
| 21 | For example if the first two phonemes in the string are the set of possible interpretations will be reduced to all words beginning re - such as repudiate , rebuke , etc . |
| 22 | It was here , too , that broader links were formed with other kinds of social deviance which had similarly been reduced to technical problems . |
| 23 | Galleywood again won narrowly , against Great Waltham , in a game reduced to 42 overs . |
| 24 | Despite the weather the under-18s succeeded in keeping alive the prestigious tournament now reduced to 63 holes . |
| 25 | Within three days word came back to Pétain that one whole battalion of his old regiment had been virtually wiped out , and one of its companies reduced to nineteen men . |
| 26 | The forms tell strongly on the curving surface and the figure-zone is widened for them , its background left bare or scattered with small flower-shapes , a calyx of pointed leaves or petals at the base and the areas of fine lines reduced to narrow borders of two or three ( figs. 7 and 8 ) . |
| 27 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |
| 28 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |
| 29 | The sentence would be reduced to two years , with the balance of the sentence remaining to be served suspended ( the appellant having served six months ) . |
| 30 | Experts stressed , however , that this sharp ( and unexpected ) decline would fail to head off continued rapid population growth unless the fertility rate was further reduced to two children per woman . |