Example sentences of "[adv] [be] reduced to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revaluation reserve shall only be reduced to the extent that the amounts transferred from it are no longer necessary for the purposes of the valuation method used . |
| 2 | Only through a very effective regional policy could these differences perhaps be reduced to an extent that would be compatible with the existence of a monetary union . |
| 3 | Its future depends on a different kind of alliance with the class that created it who wo n't for much longer be reduced to the status of clients dependent on the whim of their political godfathers . |
| 4 | In fact , they would finally be reduced to the level of docile beasts of burden . |
| 5 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |
| 6 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 7 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 9 | He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile . |
| 10 | This somewhat schematic listing will serve to illustrate that sexual behaviour and its regulation can not be reduced to a simple explanatory factor ; nor can there be a simple , straightforward history . |
| 11 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 12 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 13 | Health policy can not be reduced to a purely rational technical process even if the means were available . |
| 14 | The critique of Nietzsche 's apocalyptic aestheticism , with its injunction to build your dwelling on the slopes of Vesuvius , just can not be reduced to the cliché about Baudrillard fiddling while Rome burns with which the book closes . |
| 15 | Hegel is adamant than human beings can not be reduced to the status of ‘ things ’ . |
| 16 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 17 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 18 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 19 | The term acquisition is more frequently associated with the child 's mastery of higher-order understanding which can not easily be reduced to the additive effect of different learning experiences . |
| 20 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 21 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 22 | And , politics well aside , what unites them is precisely their purity , the fact that they can both be reduced to a matter of pure taste . |
| 23 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |
| 24 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 25 | Just ask her a couple of times whether she had a bath this morning and she will immediately be reduced to the anxious teenager she once was , surreptitiously sniffing her armpits and combing chemists for bottles of Charlie . |
| 26 | Accompaniment can sometimes be reduced to a very simple harmonic background with very little movement . |
| 27 | With the growth of international lending in both domestic and foreign currencies most banks have increased their staff numbers and resources devoted to the assessment of country risk , although it has to be recognised that such a subject can never be reduced to an exact science . |
| 28 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |