Example sentences of "[adv] been reduced [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 3 | ( The shipping fares from Southampton to Singapore , which catered to a higher class of trade , had merely been reduced from £110 in the 1850s to £68 in the 1880s . |
| 4 | This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people . |
| 5 | Infant mortality has already been reduced by 32% . |
| 6 | The mangrove forest in the region has already been reduced by half . |
| 7 | Interest rates , which had already been reduced by 0.5 per cent on April 1 , fell by another 0.75 per cent on April 23 , with the official discount rate falling to 3.75 per cent . |
| 8 | The ozone layer over Europe has already been reduced by 10 per cent in the last ten years , and is expected to decline at an accelerating rate . |
| 9 | Its functioning power had just been reduced by a factor of one . |
| 10 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 11 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |
| 12 | Component stocks have also been reduced by 50% . |
| 13 | It was here , too , that broader links were formed with other kinds of social deviance which had similarly been reduced to technical problems . |
| 14 | One trick is to plaster all the shops in one particular chain with ‘ Sale ’ and ‘ Massive Discounts ’ posters while prices have only really been reduced in one branch . |
| 15 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 16 | Seats in the new Olympic Gallery , which cost £40 each for last month 's game against Italy , have now been reduced to £20 . |
| 17 | In 1978 it was claimed that these devices could not produce electricity at a cheaper rate than 20 pence per kilowatt hour ( as opposed to the Central Electricity Generating Board 's 2.7 pence per kilowatt hour ) but this has now been reduced to 10 pence per kilowatt hour while Dr Salter maintains that the Duck could achieve 4 pence per kilowatt hour . |
| 18 | 1988 The fact that Diana is bored by Charles 's polo obsession is now common knowledge and , significantly , the kiss on the mouth has now been reduced to a mere peck on the cheek . |
| 19 | The ability to view infant care practices in any other light than whether they help the infant in his basic struggle to live is , then , something peculiar to our own century and , within this century , to the technologically advanced countries in which infant and child mortality rates have now been reduced to comparatively insignificant proportions . |
| 20 | For example , the initial listing of a dozen possible places to live has now been reduced to , say , six . |
| 21 | Most of this has until recently come from a grant from the CTC , but that has now been reduced to £300 . |
| 22 | Most of this has until recently come from a grant from the CTC , but that has now been reduced to £300 . |
| 23 | Most of this has until recently come from a grant from the CTC , but that has now been reduced to £300 . |
| 24 | That has now been reduced to about 2,100 and it is likely to fall to about 1,800 . |
| 25 | The original dispersed development strategy ended up with a shortfall , something like two thousand dwellings , compared to the sites which had been agreed between the various authorities at the time , it 's also worth noting that that was based on a dwelling target of nine thousand one hundred for Greater York , I think that 's correct , over the period since actual sites which have been agreed between the authorities since then have clearly increased , so as you 've seen in my appendix eight the residual requirement has now been reduced to a a level of nine hundred and forty seven . |
| 26 | Although interest on general damages has now been reduced to 2 per cent following Birkett v Hayes [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 710 and Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 211 , this interest is only recoverable from the date on which a writ has been served . |
| 27 | That has now been reduced to 15 and the problem is at its most acute in East Swindon . |
| 28 | However , the Albion workforce , which has now been reduced to a strength of 480 after 67 redundancies two weeks ago , intends to maintain a high profile in its campaign to save the factory . |
| 29 | An expected £1.8m from the Government for the holding of prisoners in police cells had now been reduced to £1.3m meaning that Cheshire has lost £500,000 of its expected income . |
| 30 | According to Craine , however , losses have now been reduced from once being $1m a quarter to being now ‘ around breakeven level ’ , and Rabbit should be profitable ‘ shortly ’ . |