Example sentences of "[noun] have be reduce [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Britain 's natural dry grassland areas have been reduced by half over the past 50 years , and much of the remainder is under threat from destruction , according to a study co-ordinated by the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 32 | New management meetings have been established : the management team has been reduced to Winter plus the Food and Beverage and Accommodation Managers . |
| 33 | Once again the war has been reduced to the status of a game , Hector 's childish and immature tone shows : |
| 34 | The reserve will be farmed in a way which benefits the bird , whose UK population has been reduced to 500 pairs , largely as a result of habitat destruction due to agricultural intensification . |
| 35 | Satellite photographs show that forest cover in north-eastern Thailand has been reduced from 50 per cent to 15 per cent in the past 15 years . |
| 36 | The standard rate of tax has been reduced from 33p to 25p in the pound . |
| 37 | Income tax : the basic rate of tax has been reduced from 33 per cent to 25 per cent , the top rate of tax has been reduced from 83 per cent to 40 per cent and investment is now treated more favourably following the removal of the investment income surcharge . |
| 38 | Income tax : the basic rate of tax has been reduced from 33 per cent to 25 per cent , the top rate of tax has been reduced from 83 per cent to 40 per cent and investment is now treated more favourably following the removal of the investment income surcharge . |
| 39 | Income tax has been reduced from 14.5 per cent . |
| 40 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 41 | The management has been restructured and refocused with responsibilities clearly defined , the annual cost base of the business has been reduced by some £280,000 , and marketing plans are currently being put in place for next year . |
| 42 | Despite the lack of recovery through rehabilitation the hospital population had been reduced to 189 patients in 1982 . |
| 43 | The majority of the population had been reduced to a state of extreme poverty , an estimated 150,000 people had lost their jobs , and famine was reported in the north-west region . |
| 44 | One could try and explain this as follows : subjects perceived an increase in k as necessitating an increase in output since the opportunities for using output from other periods to increase sales this period had been reduced by the increase in the storage cost ; accordingly , one should produce more now in case the price this period turned out to be a high one . |
| 45 | Rory had been reduced to simply shrugging her shoulders in reply , stuck for an answer , and that had depressed her still more . |
| 46 | At one point , Dr Stroud had been reduced to tears as he tried to pull his gloves over his frost-bitten fingers . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | As far as internal operations were concerned costs had been reduced by the extensive installation of computer technology , particularly with respect to booking and internal control procedures . |
| 50 | Already however , the Luftwaffe had been reduced in strength in Sicily as units began moving over to Libya to support the new German Afrika Korps , which was being assembled in the Tripoli area . |
| 51 | Debtor days have been reduced from more than 40 to less than 30 over the past two months . |
| 52 | BVRD Both the First and Last versions have been reduced from their original values . |
| 53 | BVRD Both the First and Last versions have been reduced from their original values . |
| 54 | while waits of more than two years have been reduced by 37 per cent . |
| 55 | Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all . |
| 56 | Costs have been reduced by automation and heavy job cuts , and profits last year more than tripled to £36m . |
| 57 | Group property costs have been reduced by sub-letting or selling UK office space . |
| 58 | ‘ Unit costs have been reduced by a third over the past two years . ’ |
| 59 | This includes estimates of how the returns to policyholders have been reduced by the effect of expenses and charges incurred by the life assurance company . |
| 60 | In both all the sensuous elements of the previous years have been banished ; colour has been reduced to a severe combination of browns , dull greens and greys . |