Example sentences of "reducing them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recession and the Gulf war wiped 62% off pre-tax profits , reducing them to £130m ( $240m ) from 1989 's £345m . |
| 2 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 3 | In this way any potential odour nuisance may be dispersed , but as a method of controlling any toxic odorants present in the air by reducing them to their TLV 's , it is most unreliable and not recommended as a method of control unless the concentration of contaminants is low . |
| 4 | The phrase ‘ likely to be injurious or offensive ’ , would seem to indicate that ‘ all practicable measures ’ should be taken to protect employees , not only from toxic odorants , by reducing them to their TLVs , or below , but also from odour nuisance . |
| 5 | Only by reducing them to sharply defined and manageable areas , it is felt , can we ever begin to understand their systematic nature and operate their rules . |
| 6 | This has meant , for example , that despite some valiant efforts Marxism has been ultimately unable to deal with other important social dimensions such as race and gender differences without reducing them to a mere aspect of class oppression and class struggle . |
| 7 | The possibility of employing on the plane of a single work discourses of various types , with all their expressive capacities intact , without reducing them to a single common denominator — this is one of the fundamental characteristics of prose . |
| 8 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 9 | At the beginning of May a delegation of Indian civil rights groups , headed by a former judge , V. M. Tarkunde , issued a report complaining of " a large number of excesses " and condemned the curfew as an attempt to tame the populace " by reducing them to starvation level " . |
| 10 | The new agreement signed by Fenech Adami and Jadallah Azouz al-Talhi , the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Liaison , amended the military clauses of the 1984 protocol , reducing them to a commitment on security , with each country undertaking not to be used to the detriment or harm of the other [ see also pp. 33435 ; 36243 ; 37014 ] . |
| 11 | Guatemala had acknowledged Belize 's right to " self-determination " in August ; in return the Belizean National Assembly had on Aug. 16 agreed to redefine its maritime boundaries , reducing them to a three-mile zone . |
| 12 | At a concentration of 5×10 - 5 M , N-monomethyl-L-arginine produced a partial but significant inhibition of the nerve mediated relaxations , reducing them to 72.4% ( 3.5% ) of their original size ( n=22 ) ( p<0.05 ) . |