Example sentences of "had been reduce [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troop numbers had been reduced to 1986 levels , and there would be no recruitment in 1991 . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of recovery through rehabilitation the hospital population had been reduced to 189 patients in 1982 . |
| 3 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 4 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 5 | The crew of the explosive blockship HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked-back stacks to resemble a German Möwe-class destroyer . |
| 6 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 7 | The Exmoor National Park had 23,900 hectares of moorland in 1947 which , by 1976 , had been reduced to 19,021 hectares ( a 20% loss ) , 26 mainly by conversion to Pasture . |
| 8 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 10 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 11 | He had been reduced to seven stone by his ill-health and was some twenty years their junior . |
| 12 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 13 | By 1966 the route mileage had been reduced by 4,500 miles and over 2,000 stations closed , a reduction of 44 per cent on the 1962 figure . |
| 14 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |
| 15 | A government spokesman said that elephant losses in the country had been reduced from annual losses of 4,000 to 55 . |
| 16 | Moreover , when Lully 's operas were revived in the 18th century , after the orchestral string body had been reduced from five parts-to four , the quinte part was , once again , simply omitted . |
| 17 | The Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge ( UK ) announced on Aug. 31 that measurements taken on UK nuclear submarines travelling below the Greenland ice cap revealed that the thickness of the ice had been reduced from 6-7 metres in 1976 to 4-5 metres in 1987 . |