Example sentences of "[vb infin] been reduced [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sickness benefits received prior to the hearing need only be brought into account where your salary would have been reduced on account of ill health . |
| 2 | The many occasions over the years when this summit has been short of water were thus inevitable unless the level of leakage could have been reduced to an absolute minimum . |
| 3 | Once the peat has gone in such places , some land may be insufficiently fertile even for growing potatoes , and the very best land in the country will have been reduced to mineral soils of only average quality . |
| 4 | The debtor might have been reduced to his inability to satisfy his creditor , asserted Thomas Foxwell Buxton , |
| 5 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 6 | If in one election alter another considerable numbers of electors supporting the CDU/CSU or the SPD with their first votes had not switched their second votes to the FOP its representation in the Bundestag could have been reduced to insignificance or vanished altogether . |
| 7 | The goods must have been reduced into the custody of the police : A-G 's Reference . |
| 8 | However , it will have been reduced by an amount equal to Basic Rate Income Tax at the time the interest was credited to your account and this amount will be retained in your TESSA and will receive interest at the appropriate TESSA rate . |
| 9 | The list might tactfully have been reduced by five or the age-limit raised to 60 . ’ |
| 10 | ( b ) Capital As the capital resources of the firm will have been reduced by the amount required to acquire an outgoing partner 's share in the practice , so that may need to be recouped from the incoming partner ( possibly with additional contributions being needed from the continuing partners ) ; or , in the case of an increase in the number of partners , additional capital may be needed to finance new activities or new offices . |
| 11 | While various precise Vatican II reforms ( such as the use of the vernacular ) will , of course , be retained , its chief significance will have been reduced from the theological to the administrative , and John Paul II will appear in retrospect as the true successor and vindicator of Pius XII and of papal authority as proclaimed by Vatican I. |
| 12 | An offer had been made previously , whereby the waiting period would have been reduced from 18 to 12 months but the initial payment held at 54 per cent for a year . |