Example sentences of "[adv] [be] reduced to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact , they would finally be reduced to the level of docile beasts of burden . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hegel is adamant than human beings can not be reduced to the status of ‘ things ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " 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 . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |