Example sentences of "reduce it to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reduced it to 14 and regular hours . |
| 2 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 3 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 4 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 5 | It went down to forty six , they negotiated things that er reduced it to forty six . |
| 6 | This objectification temporarily reduces it to zero , to the |
| 7 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 8 | My Lords , to those who er who have objected to erm a body of large numbers o o need to reduce it to sixteen er I would say that those on the er my Noble Friends on the front bench would do very well to give their attention to the possibility of reducing the number of the cabinet er to sixteen er er er I w er forebear from making er detailed suggestions |
| 9 | Each player starts with 501 points , the winner being the first to reduce it to zero . |
| 10 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 11 | The modern tendency to reduce it to simplistic , stereotyped formulas is an insult to the creativity of God and the integrity of man . |
| 12 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 13 | ‘ Irony ’ is a strategic term that indicates the capacity of poetry to resist or elude our attempts to reduce it to conventional modes of expression . |
| 14 | The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept ; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans . |
| 15 | She 's definitely erm reduced it to two days a week . |
| 16 | The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant , and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness , of shattered surface , of climatic excess , as to threaten the depravation , barbarism , and perhaps even extinction of the species . |
| 17 | I do n't like it and I told Will that he should reduce it to one act with Hamlet throttling the silly bitch immediately ! |
| 18 | Let us reduce it to two words , ‘ Be aware ’ , and define ‘ aware of X ’ as prepared to take X into account in choices . |
| 19 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 20 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 21 | He argued that correctionalism ‘ systematically interferes with the capacity to empathise and thus comprehend the subject of enquiry ’ ( ibid. , p. 15 ) , and consequently increases ‘ the possibility of ‘ losing the phenomenon ’ — reducing it to that which it is not ’ ( ibid. p. 17 ) . |
| 22 | I put down sodium chlorate and poisoned everything , reducing it to two acres of brown earth . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm trying to decide if reducing it to four is a silver lining , ’ said Amiss . |
| 24 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 25 | France wanted to cancel Argentina 's tour this year , eventually compromising by reducing it to three matches only because the Argentine RU said ‘ If we ca n't come to France , you ca n't come here ’ . |
| 26 | The process is carried further here by spreading the picture down the vase and reducing it to three big figures . |
| 27 | Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) . |