Example sentences of "[noun sg] reduced [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shower cubicle reduced from £300 to £150 . |
| 2 | At one point in Maus II , Vladek 's wife Anja plays a murderous game of hide-and-seek , chased up and down the bunk beds of a vast , empty Auschwitz barracks by a guard reduced in close-up to a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout ( Poles are pigs in a world where Jews are mice efficiently exterminated by German cats ) . |
| 3 | Child 's desk reduced from £29.99 to £19.99 , Thunderbirds playsuits down £6 to £6.99 . |
| 4 | Babies ' cerise-and-navy striped playsuit reduced from £16.99 to £10.99 . |
| 5 | In the final of the Deodhar Trophy , South Zone ( 158 for 7 ) beat Central Zone ( 122 ; Arshad Ayub 5 for 23 ) at Calcutta in a match reduced by rain to 35 overs-a-side . |
| 6 | On Sept. 9 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from life to 20 years ' hard labour . |
| 7 | Income tax : Basic rate reduced from 29p to 27p in the £ . |
| 8 | Toddlers ' trouser suits in denim or cord reduced from £35.99 to £22.99 . |
| 9 | Cultivation grants for non-pasture land in the UK under development plans have been withdrawn and drainage reduced from 70% to 50% since December 1984 . |
| 10 | Velvet curtains down from £59.99 to £29.99 , knitwear reduced from £19.99 to £9.99 . |
| 11 | In fairness to the company , I should add that former chairman John Kerridge , who retired on health grounds in February , saw his pay reduced from £441,553 to £343,356 . |
| 12 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |