Example sentences of "[noun] been reduced [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 2 | Not only has the essential large vacuum cell been reduced to a small glass cell , but Wieman has also been able to replace gas lasers with solid state devices . |
| 3 | In the morning , when I awoke , the rose had by the motions of the night been reduced to its fragrant parts . |
| 4 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 5 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |