Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is done when religion is reduced to ethics , or treated simply as a movement within history , to be explained and defended , or even proved , by historical research and demonstration . |
| 2 | The bottom opening of the segment ring is cut to 45° to accept the bottom panel . |
| 3 | Labour is offering to people who are presently enjoying the benefits of compulsory competitive tendering a promise to scrap it . |
| 4 | Except , because of the curiously selfless decision by the clubs to vote themselves half the financial liability , that figure is reduced to £3300 , which , divided by 11 , means an average payment per player of £300 . |
| 5 | The ground quickly vanished as the speed was increased to Mach 2 — twice the speed of sound . |
| 6 | The budget of the Transport Department was to increase to $26,900 million , and was to be directed primarily towards improving the country 's air traffic control system . |
| 7 | Because of the Midland Bright Drawn Steel sale , after the Steel Stampings disposal to Parkland last year , turnover was reduced to £33.7million , from £636.2million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 8 | Those that live around the village are used to people and are not too shy . |
| 9 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 10 | ( For children under 16 years of age inclusive , the death benefit is limited to £1,000 ) . |
| 11 | One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents . |
| 12 | Immediately after his burial on 13 November 1803 , poor Mary 's benefit was doubled to 4s. a fortnight . |
| 13 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 14 | For years , marble was refused to people wanting it for tombs to provide a supply for the Moloch in Bucharest . |
| 15 | By contrast , the expression of the α v containing fibronectin binding integrin was reduced to 53% by treatment with DNJ but was not altered by DMJ . |
| 16 | Current activities have concentrated on data collection , with very little attention being paid to data analysis . |
| 17 | Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations . |
| 18 | On a 3330 , the space taken up by the track index will be at least 57 per cent of track zero if all but one track of the device is allocated to data storage ( the remaining track is assumed to be reserved for overflow records ) . |
| 19 | The result is that little attention is given to people 's own experience and understandings of these processes and the fact that such understandings in turn lead to ways in which they attempt to improve their circumstances within the constraints and opportunities with which they are faced . |
| 20 | Advantages of such an approach would be that reaction functions for policy are obtained in feedback format , that due attention is paid to dynamics and that explicit specification of a welfare criterion is avoided . |
| 21 | VAT simplification is likely to cut compliance costs for businesses and the 20p income tax band is to increase to £3,000 by 1995 . |
| 22 | The next day an announcement was made to staff . |
| 23 | After incubation for 30 minutes at 42°C , the reaction was chilled to 4°C and 10 µl of 0.5 KGB buffer plus 10 units of E.coli DNA polymerase 1 and 0.4 units of RNaseH was added . |
| 24 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 25 | She knew she was signing a mortgage of the matrimonial home but she believed , from what Mr. O'Brien had told her , that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last only three weeks . |
| 26 | Total cash was reduced to $1,300m , from $1,900m at the beginning of the year , primarily because of restructuring costs , acquisitions , investments and the operating loss . |
| 27 | Finally , ‘ special attention was paid to staff training ’ in order to ‘ keep staff up to date , maintain interest and motivation ’ . |
| 28 | Instead , the old flat rate £12 disregard was raised to £15 . |
| 29 | In the UK , its roof tiles operation saw profits fall due to lower prices and further redundancy costs , while its roofing business was boosted to £161.1m from £128.9m . |
| 30 | Losses per share were reduced to 0.3p from 21.2p in 1991 . |