Example sentences of "reduce to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's early seventies black pop that 's being bastardized , the exquisite anguish of your Timmy Thomases reduced to a blunt compassion . |
| 2 | In this limit the Einstein equation reduces to a linear wave equation . |
| 3 | Although emissions of carbon monoxide , hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen can be reduced to a certain extent by modifications to the engine combustion , meeting the emission standards requires the fitting of catalytic converters . |
| 4 | Unlike chlorine which tends to kill at all concentrations , but takes longer , QACs are bactericidal only when reduced to a certain concentration after which they inhibit cell reproduction without killing . |
| 5 | A thrilling squeal goes up from the mid-teen moshers who comprise a high proportion of the audience when they see Hetfield striding to the stage-front for the opening ‘ Enter Sandman ’ guitar in hand , after everyone had been resigned to the quaint prospect of their fave leonine frontman reduced to a vocals-only role due to his injured left hand . |
| 6 | With ITV and long-time sponsors Pearl Assurance switching their allegiance to the attractive invitation meeting in Glasgow last week , the championships have been reduced to a sorry state . |
| 7 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 8 | There they are busily ferreting away food , medical supplies and weapons with which to build a new world after the current one is reduced to a moist cinder . |
| 9 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 10 | Onto one line I tie a size 2 , straight-eyed , forged hook , which has been carefully honed with a fine carborundum stone to razor sharpness , and the barb reduced to a bare minimum so as not to impeded penetration but still retain a degree of holding power . |
| 11 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 12 | In the factory , each block is reduced to a finished curling stone weighing 40 lbs which can be described as a thing of beauty and is truly an example of the finest craftsmanship . |
| 13 | Former Governor Jerry Brown of California is now reduced to a spoiling game . |
| 14 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 15 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 16 | Whole oats need to be fed in a larger quantity , as a proportion of them tend to pass undigested through the horse ; and crushed oats are usually smashed into oblivion , and reduced to a poor quality feed of husks and dust . |
| 17 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 18 | But others wilted under the physical pressure : Laurent Rodriguez , ‘ the Lion of Dax ’ , was one example , reduced to a harmless pussy cat by David Egerton and the rest . |
| 19 | What is the logic that dictates that the shareholders should be entitled to the corporate surplus , instead for instance of the employees or management , with the entitlement of the shareholders reduced to a fixed return on capital ? |
| 20 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 21 | When Labour faced the polls in October 1990 , it was reduced to a 29-seat rump in the 99-seat parliament , caused , analysts agreed , by the electorate 's lack of confidence in the reforms and distaste for the social cost . |
| 22 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 23 | However , for experienced parachutists , anxiety was usually high on the day before the jump but then steadily reduced to a low level by the time of the jump . |
| 24 | The Communist Party , reduced to a low level , had good reason to be concerned at the threat of a new Left party . |
| 25 | Add to this the complexity of the political system , with its perversities and special interests , and the potential power of economic logic is reduced to a low order . |
| 26 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 27 | It was reduced to a digital data on a phonographic record on the side of the craft . |
| 28 | Using a solvent called AB57 — which was originally developed for cleaning marble and is a mixture of sodium and ammonium bicarbonates suspended in a cellulose gel — the conservation team has drastically altered the previously perceived tonal representations and , as one expert put it , the fresco ‘ has been reduced to a smudged painting with Disney colour ’ . |
| 29 | The process of de-industrialization in India under colonial rule began with the deliberate destruction of the cotton manufacturing industry and the opening up of Indian markets to British cotton manufacturers ; from a net exporter , India was reduced to a major importer of cotton manufactures , most of these from Britain , and indeed India was forced to become the single largest importer of British cotton manufactures , sometimes taking as much as 40 per cent of British exports . |
| 30 | Literature is not reduced to a spectral series of disembodied texts , but is seen to be a point of mediation in a developing dialectical process . |