Example sentences of "been reduced to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here , too , that broader links were formed with other kinds of social deviance which had similarly been reduced to technical problems . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of recovery through rehabilitation the hospital population had been reduced to 189 patients in 1982 . |
| 3 | Rex was particularly taken with the Wurlitzer 600 Model jukebox , noting the elaborate grille of nickel-plated Art-Deco-type scrolls and the way the Lucite rods of the Model 24 had been reduced to straight green verticals in a manner he considered most pleasing . |
| 4 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 5 | Now the Dutchman 's goal has been reduced to two clear rounds in this evening 's Modern Alarms Cup and victory in the Grand Prix . |
| 6 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 7 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But by Friday the three had been reduced to two . |
| 10 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 11 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 12 | The bowhead whale has been reduced to five per cent of its original population even though it lives in distant Arctic seas . |
| 13 | Now these have been reduced to five . |
| 14 | 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HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked-back stacks to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer . |
| 15 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |
| 18 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 19 | These 300 initial proposals have subsequently been reduced to 279 by the withdrawal of certain proposals and the grouping of others into single proposals . |
| 20 | These twelve variables have subsequently been reduced to four main headings by later writers . |
| 21 | In 1978 it was claimed that these devices could not produce electricity at a cheaper rate than 20 pence per kilowatt hour ( as opposed to the Central Electricity Generating Board 's 2.7 pence per kilowatt hour ) but this has now been reduced to 10 pence per kilowatt hour while Dr Salter maintains that the Duck could achieve 4 pence per kilowatt hour . |
| 22 | Downing Street said the Cabinet were ‘ very pleased ’ that interest rates had been reduced to 10 per cent . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In III Corps , one battalion of the Prussian Leib Grenadiers had been reduced to 196 strong in the fighting for Douaumont village , and another regiment of the same brigade had , by the second day of March , lost 38 officers and 1,151 men . |
| 25 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 26 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 27 | Troop numbers had been reduced to 1986 levels , and there would be no recruitment in 1991 . |
| 28 | The reserve will be farmed in a way which benefits the bird , whose UK population has been reduced to 500 pairs , largely as a result of habitat destruction due to agricultural intensification . |
| 29 | The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration . |
| 30 | Today people are wondering why a country which , according to Mr Lawson not long ago , was experiencing an ‘ economic miracle ’ , has been reduced to such public squalor — dirty , violent , congested and broken down , prone even to third-world disasters ? |