Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been reduced [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
2 | The entire Cabinet resigned to facilitate the re-shuffle and Prime Minister Michael Manley announced that the total number of ministers , ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries had been reduced from 39 to 28 . |
3 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
4 | By 1937 the number of brewery firms had been reduced to 1,000 , and this process continued in the immediate post-war years . |
5 | Downing Street said the Cabinet were ‘ very pleased ’ that interest rates had been reduced to 10 per cent . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Troop numbers had been reduced to 1986 levels , and there would be no recruitment in 1991 . |
8 | Since the beginning of 1990 PDS assets had been reduced by 65.6 per cent . |
9 | By 1983 , Costa Rica had lost 78% of its wet lowland forest and all of its dry ; by 1987 the Indonesian rain forests had been reduced from 65 million ha to 20 million and the Philippines from 16 million to one , though both countries had by then banned the export of unprocessed logs . |