Example sentences of "had [been] reduce to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 2 | After the Civil War Bolshevik control expanded easily from its bastion which had been reduced to the size of medieval Muscovy . |
| 3 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 4 | Eastern spinner dolphins had been reduced to about 20 per cent of their original numbers , and the Costa Rican spinner dolphin ( a subspecies ) numbered only 9000 . |
| 5 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 6 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 7 | Joe Boyd 's career began in Princeton , New Jersey , when , as an 18-year-old , he discovered that Lonnie Johnson , the legendary blues guitarist , had been reduced to washing dishes in a Philadelphia hotel kitchen . |
| 8 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 9 | But now , their budding relationship had been reduced to one set of strangers discussing events with another . |
| 10 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 11 | In his report Layfield concluded that there was only a one in forty chance that a coal station would be cheaper than Sizewell B. By the time that the then Energy Minister , Peter Walker , gave his seal of approval to the project in 1987 the odds had been reduced to one in seven . |
| 12 | The union 's research officer and main advocate , David Feickert , bitterly attacked the way that energy policy had been reduced to a question of how to beat the miners . |
| 13 | The inhabitants made it clear that their commons had been reduced to between half and a third of their former size . |
| 14 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 17 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the mighty and majestic animal had been reduced to a pawn in the squalid affairs of men . |
| 19 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 20 | The carrot cakes had been reduced to crumbs and the coffee cups were empty . |
| 21 | The reviewer of his book in the Edinburgh Review thought half of the thousands of imprisoned debtors had been reduced to their state by ‘ venial errors ’ or innocent misfortune . |
| 22 | He had been reduced to seven stone by his ill-health and was some twenty years their junior . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By 1937 the number of brewery firms had been reduced to 1,000 , and this process continued in the immediate post-war years . |
| 25 | Water levels in the drains had been reduced to only about one foot and , in view of the conditions , it was surprising that anything at all was caught . |
| 26 | It took a mere two minutes for them to open the scoring through Tracy Fry 's fine solo run , and by the time Helen Bray shot home from the spot with nine minutes remaining , Wimbledon had been reduced to chasing shadows . |
| 27 | Downing Street said the Cabinet were ‘ very pleased ’ that interest rates had been reduced to 10 per cent . |
| 28 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 29 | By a curious paradox of war , the Schlieffen Plan had been completely reversed : the Germans had been reduced to stalemate in the west while in the east they had inflicted an almost knock-out blow . |
| 30 | These revealed that over the past three years , the £700m gap between the two had been reduced to £400m to £500m . |