Example sentences of "reduce [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 2 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 3 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 4 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 5 | First , ‘ payment by results ’ demeaned education and reduced it to a mere cramming exercise in which all that is expected of pupils is a capacity for recall . |
| 6 | This case reduces them to a single principle , the ‘ neighbour principle ’ , which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 7 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 8 | The composer subtitled this piece ‘ Premonitions ’ , but Chailly reduces it to a dry orchestral exercise . |
| 9 | The problem is reproducing the image in bulk ; photocopying simply reduces it to a uniform blur , traditional litho printing is much the same . |
| 10 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 11 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 12 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 13 | The labour group have now agreed to reduce it to a hundred thousand . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 15 | Older residents recall the days when a car could be driven down this lane , but years of neglect had reduced it to a narrow path . |
| 16 | There had been a time when Julius Landor could reduce her to a whimpering wreck , when his slow-burning but frightening temper roused itself to life . |
| 17 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If I run after the goals which I see everyone around me running after , I reduce them to no more than means to the well-being of feeling at one with the many . |
| 21 | So simply avoiding cigarette smoke , household chemicals , food additives and tap water may be enough to eliminate symptoms , or reduce them to a bearable level . |
| 22 | Only the family historian can charter some of these kaleidoscopic patterns of mobility and reduce them to an understandable human scale . |
| 23 | Whenever he did , it was as though a bolt of red-hot lightning streaked through her body , reducing her to a quivering jelly . |
| 24 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |
| 25 | For the sake of clarity , and since its fate is fundamental to what happened later , I have tried to omit my interruptions and the questions which demanded answers , and reduce it to a simple account based on the facts that Alec Reid told me . |
| 26 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
| 27 | Perhaps that was why de Gaulle 's memoirs of the period , Memoirs of Hope , de-dramatized the whole affair , reducing it to a futile conflict over the essentially nineteenth-century problem of colonial domination , irrelevant to the real concerns of France in the contemporary era . |
| 28 | And , as we have all too clearly seen , they utterly dominate our democratic process , reducing it to a cynical exercise in mass manipulation . |
| 29 | The Nez Perce marksmen met his cavalry charge with a withering volley , reducing it to a bloody mêlée of screaming men and horses . |
| 30 | The edifice was short lived : on the day of the opening ceremony , the assembled crowd of visitors got out of control during the festivities and dismantled the building , reducing it to the great heap of stones to be seen today . |