Example sentences of "[adv] [be] reduced to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence Stenhouse ( 1970/1 ) has seriously doubted whether the articulation of behavioural objectives is practical in ( for instance ) the teaching of Hamlet : The content of a work of art can not be reduced to students ' behaviours . |
| 2 | technology can not be reduced to machines . |
| 3 | Unlike their wimpish , ambitious colleagues in the Lower House , they can not be reduced to tears or submission by bullying whips . |
| 4 | ‘ For heaven 's sakes ! ’ he exclaimed , shocked to find that his wife , usually acidly in command of herself and of anyone else who came near her , could possibly be reduced to tears . |
| 5 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |