Example sentences of "reduce to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their riders , spearheaded by new signing Richard Van Looy , formerly with Leo CC , littered the top ten and last year 's prolific winners Eddie Page and Barry MacDonald reduced to the minor placings . |
| 2 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 3 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 4 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 5 | As the tide reaches its height , the width of the beach is reduced to a few yards . |
| 6 | To help the learner , complex examples should be reduced to the essential characteristics and differences emphasised . |
| 7 | However , they do involve exploring the role of knowledge and ideas in society and do not accept that all aspects of social relations can be reduced to the economic relations of the mode of production . |
| 8 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 9 | We will make sure , too , that imports are reduced to the same levels as they were under the Labour Government . |
| 10 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 11 | But neither do such concepts reduce to the corresponding predicates , nor indeed are such predicates entirely dispensable . |
| 12 | Eliminate the temptation to turn to the food cupboard for comfort by reducing to a minimum foods that can harm you : biscuits , cakes , crisps , pies , sweets , chocolate , pizzas and even bread . |